Brick could have cost me my life, says driver

A LORRY driver seriously injured when he was hit in the face by a brick thrown at his cab window in South Yorkshire says he could have been killed had it had hit him just an inch away.

Father-of-three Dave Green was delivering steel in Rotherham on March 10 when a gang of youths lobbed the brick at him, hitting him in the face and fracturing his eye socket and his cheekbone.

The 48-year-old has spoken exclusively to The Yorkshire Post over fears for drivers across the country who are being targeted by youths, unaware of the potentially fatal consequences their actions could have.

Mr Green had taken a wrong turn and was reversing his lorry in Jubilee Street, off Canklow Road in Rotherham, when the teenagers struck.

He said: “If it had hit my eyeball I could have been blinded, or worse if the brick had hit my temple, which it was about an inch away from. It could have killed me.”

Mr Green said similar attacks to his were becoming increasingly common.

He said: “The latest trend is kids tying a brick or stone to a piece of string and attaching it to the wagon without us knowing.

“Then when a lorry driver is going at a faster speed it flies up and hits the windscreen.

“A friend of mine, who is also a lorry driver, was in a bad accident when someone dropped a paving stone off a bridge over a motorway and it hit his windscreen, causing him to swerve and hit another car.

“These people don’t think of the consequences their actions have.”