A barbershop had a close shave when a truck smashed through the window. <br /><br />Customers and employees of Trendsetters Barbershop in Hollywood, California, had a scare when a Ford 350 crashed into the building.<br /><br />The enormous red pickup truck had been left unattended at a gas station across the road from the shop and rolled away. <br /><br />It crossed the road and went through the front window, scattering the customers, and flinging a vending machine across the room. <br /><br />Eugene Torres, a barber at the West Hollywood shop, was cutting a customer's hair and says both narrowly escaped. <br /><br />Eugene, 44, explained: "I heard a laugh, looked up, and saw a giant Ford 350 plow through the window."<br /><br />Eugene, from Pico Rivera, California, says that the vending machine flew across the room, and landed where the customer sat. <br /><br />Eugene, terrifyingly had been cutting the customer's hair with a straight razor. <br /><br />Thankfully Eugene had time to warn him, and both men, as well as the other two customers in the shop, escaped unharmed. <br /><br />Eugene said: "I was giving someone a 'razor fade' so I had a blade in my hand.<br /><br />"I just shouted 'get up!' My client got up at the last second, so I grabbed the chair and moved it a bit.<br /><br />"The vending machine flew across the room and almost crushed his legs, it was exactly where I stand if I'm on my phone."<br /><br />Not one to be phased by a little accident, Eugene finished the man's haircut and only stopped working when ordered to. <br /><br />He was shaken but finished another 45 minutes of haircuts until officials deemed the building structurally unsound. <br /><br />The truck had struck a pillar in the shop, making the building unsafe, but this also may have saved everyone inside. <br /><br />Eugene explained: "We were very shaken, we got up, asked if everyone was OK and got on. <br /><br />"I finished my haircut and one more after that, I kept going for about 45 minutes, we've had to find another place to cut hair now. <br /><br />"It's the busiest week of the year.<br /><br />"If the truck had been six inches over it would not have hit the pillar and come straight through the shop."<br /><br />According to Eugene, the accident, which took place on November 19th was not the first time this has happened. <br /><br />He said: "Two years ago another truck went though the other window. A local guy said he's seen it happen six times in the 30 years he's lived here."
