A garage specialising in Volkswagen and Audi vehicles says its body shop is busy with the wrong kind of work after a fifth car was brought in for repair in just five weeks because a brick was hurled at it.

Bryan Chittil, of Summers Motors in Headcorn Road, Ashford, spoke out after a VW Golf needed £500 of repairs when it was struck by a brick two days ago.

The woman driver who was in the Benenden area says her car was hit out of the blue by a missile thrown from a passing vehicle.

Ian Summers, the firm's boss, tweeted that it was the fifth car seen by the garage, with drivers experiencing near identical attacks.

Mr Chittil said: "In a five-week period we have seen five vehicles brought in whose drivers are giving the same account of their cars being hit after a hand emerges from a passing van and hurls the brick.

"Even our own Golf hatchback being driven by one of our most experienced technicians was struck in the same way on a journey from Goudhurst to Tonbridge.

"I think what we have seen must be the tip of the iceberg as other garages are likely to be taking in cars damaged in this way.

"People say to us you must be very busy and we are - but this isn't nice work and it's not what we want to see.

"There is a danger of a driver losing control of their vehicle hitting a pavement and killing someone and that could be a child."

Kent Police were appealing for witnesses to an earlier incident on July 17 when a vehicle travelling from Tenterden towards Rolvenden on the A28 was hit in the same way.