Police are hunting two teenage yobs who nearly killed a mum and her disabled daughter when they threw a rock at their car on the A12.
Annette Challis and her 25-year-old daughter Jade were driving their Proton Savvy towards Silver End from Colchester when the youths broke their windscreen with a fist-sized stone dropped from a bridge.
Ms Challis, 49, said: “We had gone past the Kelvedon turn-off and it was the first footbridge from there. We saw these two lads standing there.
“Just as I drove towards them he literally got a rock and threw it over the footbridge. He was only about 13.
“I just thought ‘oh my God, it’s going to hit’.
“There was nothing I could do. I had cars behind me, cars in front. I was on the A12 doing 60mph. How can you stop?
“Everything just went into slow motion. The police said I did amazingly well just to keep going. If it had come through the windscreen it’s obvious Jade and I could have been killed.”
The boys are described as being aged about 13 or 14.
The first is described as having blond layered shoulder-length hair and he was wearing a grey sweatshirt with a white T-shirt underneath and blue jeans. The second boy had dark hair and was wearing a red jumper.
Anybody with information should contact PC Trevor Sleet at Chelmsford Roads Policing Unit on 101.
See this week's Braintree and Witham Times for the full story.
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