A FURIOUS driver was shaken up after yobs threw a brick at her car while she was driving at 50mph on a busy road.
Lisa Leggett, from Rayleigh, joined the A13 at Stanford-Le-Hope, and had only been on the road for 30 seconds before she saw a brick heading towards her windscreen.
The 41-year-old, who had her two grandkids in the car, was covered in glass when the windscreen smashed all over her lap.
She then pulled over in a nearby layby, where a van driver had also been hit with a rock five minutes before.
Alarming footage revealed how Lisa’s son urged her to “keep going” after the brick was launched over the hedgerows at the side of the road. She said: “It was so scary.
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“Luckily my grandkids, who are only 18 months and five months old, stayed asleep the whole time. I’m not sure how they managed that.
“I could just about see where I was going. My son was in the car too, and he was able to talk to me to keep me calm.
“It’s not like I can go anywhere, but my car is out of action now for days. My grandkids are stuck at mine now too.”
Lisa, who drives a Vauxhall Zafira, claims the van driver she saw at the side of the road told her he had seen a group of teenagers throw a large rock at his vehicle.
Alarming pictures revealed how much damage had been caused, with the car set to be fixed today.
She added: “He saw them on the bridge, but by the time I got there there were in the farmers fields to the left. It was so dangerous, and really quite scary.
“There was just a loud bang all of a sudden. None of the airbags went off, but the windscreen had come away from the panel.
A spokesman from Essex Police, said: “We are investigating following reports of criminal damage to two vehicles after items were thrown from Green Acres Bridge over the A13 and struck two cars at around 4.30pm on Wednesday February 3.
“The cars were travelling southbound on the A13 at the time. The items were described to us as stones and a brick.
“One vehicle reported their windscreen and an interior panel damaged. The second vehicle reported a damaged door.”
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