A car parked on Froghill Common was flattened yesterday afternoon after being hit by a falling food mixer.
No-one was injured in the incident though the car, a silver Volvo belonging
to George Chitling, CEO of Chitling’s
Balls and Brackets, was a write-off.
Bob
Buttress, a dog-walker
who witnessed the event, said: “I was
waiting while Paddy did his business and I noticed this couple getting out of a car
about a hundred yards away.
“The woman
was obviously very angry and was shouting at the man. He seemed to be pleading
with her, trying to calm her down.
“I heard
him say something about promising to tell his wife, just not at the moment.
“Then suddenly
there was this loud whooshing sound and a big object fell out of the sky. It
landed right on top of the car. Hell of a bang it made, knocked the couple clean
off their feet.
“As I was looking for my mobile to
call the police, the pair of them picked themselves up off the ground.
“She shouted something about never wanting to see him again as long as
she lived and limped off down Swansdike Road.
“He just sat there on the pavement, suit all covered in dust and saying
‘My car, my car’, over and over again.”
The object
was later identified as an EasiChef 500, a floor-standing industrial food mixer
made of cast iron and weighing around 200 kg.
A police
spokesperson, speaking on condition of cash-in-hand payment, said that the mixer showed signs of scorching, similar to that seen on spacecraft after re-entering the earth’s atmosphere.
This is the not the first time that Mr. Chitling’s vehicle has been
destroyed in a freak accident. In the early hours of New Year’s Day, a brand
new Audi A8 was consumed by fire after sparks from his trousers ignited the
fuel tank.
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