A Scots mum fears she and her 4 younger passengers might have been killed after a big picket board smashed into the entrance of her motor.
Claire Naylor was driving alongside the Standing Stane Highway on Saturday afternoon when the particles fell off a passing van as she headed to Kirkcaldy, Fife.
The 28-year-old was pressured to brake onerous to keep away from the door-shaped merchandise from flying by means of the windscreen of her automobile at 60mph, leaving her and the youngsters badly shaken.
She now fears her automobile is a write-off after the board smashed into the bonnet with such power that it pushed a headlight again into the engine.
Claire, a mum-of-three from Kinglassie, advised how the motive force of the van by no means stopped and has launched dashcam footage of the surprising incident in a bid to hint the motive force.
She stated: “If I didn’t put my foot on the brakes after I did, who is aware of what might've occurred. I might’ve swerved and gone into the timber.
“I braked so onerous that my step-daughter’s telephone smashed her within the face as a result of she went ahead.
“My daughter who was sitting within the entrance advised my dad that her head almost hit the sprint.
“I used to be fast on the brakes but when I hadn’t been, it will’ve come by means of my windscreen and it will have been completely deadly.
“Everybody who has watched the video has stated that we had been very fortunate. My automobile is sort of badly broken however we’re nonetheless right here and we’re nice which is the primary factor.”
She added: “There’s no means the motive force couldn’t have recognized that the wooden had hit my automobile. Within the video, you may see the strap flapping off the facet of his van.
“Because the wooden was hitting the entrance of my automobile, he was passing us so he ought to’ve been capable of see it out his window.
“It was a heavy obligation little bit of wooden. My automobile is totalled. The scene would’ve been a multitude.
“I by no means stopped as quickly because it occurred as a result of I had 4 youngsters within the automobile and it’s not a protected highway.
“It was actually busy and there have been a great deal of automobiles behind the van so hopefully they'd dashcam footage of it taking place.
“As quickly as I felt it was protected to cease, I did and checked the automobile over earlier than calling my associate.
“After I was in mattress final night time, I stored seeing the wooden coming in direction of us and I used to be attempting to cowl my daughter and the hole in between the seats to cease the wooden going within the again.
“There’s even nonetheless bits of the wooden caught within the automobile.”
Police Scotland have confirmed they're investigating after being notified by Claire on Saturday afternoon.
A power spokesperson stated: “We obtained a report of a automobile struck by an merchandise falling from one other automobile on Standing Stane Highway close to Leven round 2.20pm on Saturday, 14 Might.
“The incident occurred a short while earlier and enquiries are ongoing.”
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