A 17-year-old Northbrook man, driving a Mercedes the wrong way down Church Street on Thursday night, was hit by a Ford Explorer and then smashed through the front door of Osco Drug, police said.

The Northbrook teen, whose name was not released Thursday night, was heading west on the eastbound street at about 11 p.m. and crossed into oncoming Sherman Avenue traffic.

Jordan Ziolkowski, 19, of the 700 block of Judson Avenue was southbound on Sherman Avenue when his SUV struck the passenger side of the black E-class Mercedes.

The Northbrook teen was taken by ambulance to Evanston Hospital to be treated for a cut on his head, Evanston police said. He received minor injuries and was in good condition at about 12:30 a.m., a hospital official said.

The store had closed about an hour before the accident, which police said was not alcohol-related. There were several employees in Osco, 1630 Sherman Ave., but none was injured.

Ziolkowski, who was wearing his seat belt and was not injured in the accident, said he felt lucky to be alive.

“It could have been worse,” he said. “Two seconds earlier and I would have missed the guy. But two seconds later and he would have hit me. Who knows what would have happened then?”

The Mercedes — with its alarm sounding — stopped inside Osco’s vestibule after smashing the store’s left automatic door.

Windows to the left of the door were shattered, and some of the brick wall surrounding the store windows had crumbled.

Shards of glass covered the sidewalk and the street in front of the store.

Osco employees who heard the car slam into the building thought the store was being robbed and ran to the rear, where they hid in a room until police arrived.

The store manager on Thursday night declined to comment about the incident or whether the store would reopen in the morning.