AMUM and daughter narrowly avoided injury after yobs flung a missile through the back of their car.

Sharon De Boos was driving along the A127 in Basildon with her nine-year-old daughter, Elise, when an object smashed the rear window of her silver Seat Ibiza, showering the car with glass.

Fortunately, the pair were not injured and Ms De Boos managed to stop the car safely.

Ms De Boos, 38, said she was driving towards Basildon from Chelmsford, taking her daughter to gymnastics training, when the car was hit.

She said: “When I realised what had happened, I started panicking and just pulled over. I have read about people whowere seriously injured on the A12 and it is just sickening.

“I did not go under any bridges and the police think the object may have been catapulted at our car.”

The attack happened at about 4.50pm on Thursday, just inside the 70mph zone junction with the A176 at Laindon.

The object hit the screen, causing it to break, then “bounced”

off on to the road, although police have not been able to find it.

Ms De Boos, of Lister Tye, Chelmsford, said: “I heard a huge bang. I knew it was the car, but I had not hit anything, so said to my daughter in the back: ‘What was that?’ “I looked into the rear-view mirror and the whole of the back window had smashed and there was a massive hole in it.

“That sent me into a panic, because there was glass all over the place.

“Elise was in the back and my worry was that some of the glass may have hit her, but luckily it didn’t.”

Ms De Boos pulled over at Pound Lane, but could not find the object in the car.

She said: “I called the police and my husband came to collect my daughter.

“It has left me shaken and has knocked my confidence when I am driving. I drove to Basildon again on Sunday, but I am too nervous to use the A127.”

Anybody with any information is asked to call PC Rob Duffy at Laindon on 101.

People can also call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111, or give information via an anonymous form at crime stoppers-uk.org

 

Drivers hit by rocks

IT is not the first time
motorists have been
attacked with missiles on
the A127.
Lawrence Rosson, 40,
from Rochford, was on his
way to work in Barking
when he says yobs hurled a
rock from a footbridge near
the Fortune of War roundabout
in 2012, cracking his
windscreen.
In October last year,
thugs threw a “fist-sized”
block of concrete at driving
instructor James Ayres’ car
on the A127 at Brentwood.
In 2007, Suzanne Singer,
40, from Shoebury died
after swerving off the A127
near Basildon and hitting a
tree.
It is believed her car was
pelted with eggs moments
before the crash at Dunton.
In December 2011, Carol
Manleywas left fighting for
her life after a bucketshaped
block of concrete
was thrown through her
car windscreen from a
bridge over the A12 – one of
more than 30 incidents
reported since 2008.