by Chris Hunter

chunter@thekmgroup.co.uk

A YOUNG woman was lucky to escape unhurt when youths lobbed a missile at her car from a motorway bridge.

Maidstone hairdresser Tiffany Lewis was driving on the M20 on Saturday evening, on her way to a family party in Croydon, when she noticed the gang of teenagers just before junction 3 near Wrotham Heath.

Seconds later, the 26-year-old from Church Street, Tovil, saw one of them – a white boy in mustard coloured trousers and a dark top – throw what looked like a rock, straight at her.

"I thought he was going to jump because he was leaning over," she said. "But as I got closer I saw he had something in his hand. Then he threw it.

"There was this almighty crash so loud I thought it must have come into the car."

The object clipped the side of the windscreen leaving a massive crater (pictured) in the glass.

Badly shaken by the attack, Miss Lewis kept her foot down and drove on in her Toyota Rav4.

"I just got really panicked. I was so frightened I didn’t want to pull over and then have to get back on the motorway again.

"Now I wish I had pulled over and chased them.

"I’m so angry. I’ve had to pay for a windscreen and lost a day’s work just because of some idiot. I just think they’re absolutely stupid.

"If it had hit in the middle of the windscreen I don’t know what would have happened.

"They could have killed me. If I hadn’t seen them first, maybe I would have swerved and caused a crash."

The attack was branded "irresponsible and malicious" by police.

Insp Nick Sparkes said: "This could have quite easily smashed the windscreen and struck the driver with disastrous consequences.

"There have been incidents of this kind in before and I cannot emphasise strongly enough that on this occasion the driver was lucky.

"Throwing anything at a moving vehicle is irresponsible and malicious, but to throw something large from a bridge at a moving vehicle could kill someone."

Angered Tiffany now says she won’t drive on a motorway again.

Phone Kent Police on 101 or Kent Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111