A Poulsbo woman stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake while backing out of a parking stall at the McDonald’s on High School Road and drove through the outdoor seating area in reverse before hitting the corner of the restaurant.

The crash was reported by a McDonald’s employee just after 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3.

According to a Bainbridge Island police report, a 54-year-old Poulsbo woman in a 2010 Toyota Corolla was parked in the northwest corner of the McDonald’s lot when she started to back out. She told police she mistakenly hit the accelerator and then went over the curb in front of the restaurant. She plowed through an outdoor table and chairs, and then hit the corner of the building near the dining area.

Police estimate the woman traveled 100 feet before hitting the building.

The car-versus-building crash was the second in recent weeks, and the latest in a long string of such accidents on Bainbridge Island this year.

In the other recent crash, a 25-year-old Poulsbo woman in a 1999 Honda Accord was pulling into a parking space just after 7:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 24 at a business just south of the Island Village Shopping Center when she stepped on the accelerator instead of the gas pedal while parking, jumped the curb and hit the building at 360 Tormey Lane.

A window was broken but police said there were no injuries.

The two recent accidents join a growing list of at least eight mishaps involving drivers hitting buildings have been reported this year on the island.

The weird rash of accidents started in April when a taxi van leaving the ferry terminal hit the outside of the San Juan Building on Winslow Way.

Later that month, a driver accidentally drove into a vacant storefront next door to Sole Mates Shoes & Outerwear in the Island Village Shopping Center on High School Road.

In early May, a man was parking outside the Subway sandwich shop in the Island Village Shopping Center when he missed the brake and hit the gas instead and struck the building.

In late May, another driver escaped injury when he drove his Lincoln LS sedan into the 911 Hildebrand building on Hildebrand Lane.

Then, in late September, a driver in a Mercury Sable LS drove into the southwest corner of the Madison Diner on Madison Avenue and damaged the building’s facade.

On Oct. 27, a woman and her dog escaped injury after she accidentally drove into the front of the Bainbridge Rite Aid on High School Road.

The woman was parked in a handicap spot facing the Rite Aid, but backed up into the handicap sign with her Subaru Outback when she was leaving, then hit the accelerator too hard to pull forward.

She drove forward into the brick building and wedged her car between the storefront and a concrete pillar at the entrance to the store.