A 22-YEAR-0LD woman is recovering from shock after an attacker smashed her car window with his fist.

She was parked at the Seven Brooks Medical Centre off Church Street, Atherton, when the attack happened on Monday.

A man approached her car, smashed the window and grabbed hold of the woman. She screamed and her attacker ran away.

He is described as white, in his late teens or early 20s, wearing a striped beanie hat.