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A woman lost control of her car yesterday after the mountains of trash in her sedan came down in an avalanche onto the vehicle’s accelerator.

West Yarmouth police were called to a Mobil gas station and found a car backed into a flower planter in the parking lot. The two responding officers, upon peering into the cherry red 2000 Ford Focus, found that it was filled from top to bottom with mounds of trash.

“I don’t know what the technical name of that disorder might be,” said Officer John Dimitres. “It’s a pretty unusual and extreme hoarding type of thing.”

The driver, Ann E. Biglin, claimed “several old coffee cups as well as assorted pieces of trash” had fallen onto the gas pedal while she was backing out of a parking spot at the West Yarmouth Post Office, according to police.

Officer Dimitres said he had even warned Biglin about similar situations like this in the past, but he could not avoid citing her this time around.

The Focus accelerated quickly, causing Biglin to lose control.

The sedan jumped the sidewalk, knocked over a light post and raced across Route 28, hitting a Ford Explorer. Biglin’s car finally ended up in the parking lot of the Mobil station across the street from the post office.

“She basically did an ‘S’ turn,” Officer Dimitres said. “Luckily no one was hurt in this caper.”

The Focus was towed away and Biglin was charged with impeded operation of a motor vehicle, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and failure to use care while backing.