Fence thrown from Daventry bridge smashes lorry windscreen

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Northamptonshire Police says it is 'sheer luck' that no-one was killed or seriously injured.

A fence panel thrown from a bridge hit a passing lorry and became embedded in the windscreen, police have said.Police officers issued a warning in January afterFollowing the latest incident, they said "it is just by sheer luck that someone has not been killed or seriously injured".

A Northamptonshire Police spokesperson said: "This type of dangerous behaviour must stop, and it is just by sheer luck that someone has not been killed or seriously injured by an object which has been thrown from the bridge.

 

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