LOVELAND, Colo. -- An elderly female driver was trapped briefly after her white Chrysler crashed into the front window of a garden-level apartment in Loveland Tuesday morning.

The accident happened in the 1700 block of North Wilson at about 10:25 a.m., Loveland police said.

Firefighters worked to extricate 87-year-old Effie Thompson and transported her to McKee Medical Center. She was checked out and then released.

A couple living in the apartment had just moved from a couch seconds before the car came crashing through. Luckily, they were not injured either.

Thompson's vehicle had been parked directly in front of the apartment window before the crash. Thompson told 7NEWS that she was trying to turn her car around in the parking lot when she shifted gears, or thought she did.

"I thought I had it in reverse. And evidently it wasn't clearly in reverse. That's all I can figure, I really don't know," Thompson said. "I was frantic when I started to go forward. And that was it. I ended up in their front window."

Helmi Kampf was home, working on her computer when Thompson's Chrysler came in through the window and suspended itself over the couch.

"It was like a gas explosion, like a bomb," Kampf said.

"The floor of the whole building shook. I thought like a gas line might have blown up or something," said another resident.

"I looked out and hello, there was a car stuck in the apartment below me," said resident Ross Miracle.

Officials from the Loveland Fire Department and the city's building inspector ensured the apartment was structurally sound before allowing the Kampfs to return to their apartment.

Thompson was issued a summons for careless driving.