A WOMAN driver has spoken of her lucky escape when youths lobbed stones at her windscreen from a footbridge over a motorway.

Sally Watson, from Eccles, near Maidstone, said she had just driven onto the M20 on Sunday, January 18, near junction 5 at Aylesford, when her windscreen was hit by two stones thrown from the footbridge.

She contacted the Kent Messenger after reading in last week's edition that a van driver had also been lucky to escape injury when a group of youths hurled stones at his van.

Miss Watson said the attack on her car happened just an hour after the van was struck on the same night.

"It was frightening," she said. "As I drove under the footbridge, I could see there were a few kids up on the top of the footbridge, but I didn't expect them to throw anything.

"Suddenly I heard this noise and there was a crack in my windscreen. There was no traffic in front of me, so I knew it had come from above. It was quite scary because I was in the car on my own."

Miss Watson, who did not report the incident to the police, said she did not stop until she got home, as it was getting dark and she did not want to pull over on the motorway.

When she got home, she examined the damage and found there were two cracks in the windscreen.Police are looking for five teenagers with a white dog in connection with the attack on the van driver from the Teapot Lane footbridge near junction 5 at Aylesford.