Powerful winds slammed a heavy slab of metal through a car windscreen, seriously damaging the vehicle on North Uist this morning.
The three metre-long panel off a livestock pen was hurled from a croft about half a mile away in Blashaval near Lochmaddy.
The steel panel banged against the passenger door of the year-old Nissan Qashqai leaving a large gash before slicing through the front windscreen.
Car owner Kat Payne, 36, said: “Its absolutely bizarre.
“I’m extremely glad I was not in the car or I would have been decapitated.
“Right now there’s so much water in the car after the heavy rains that I don’t know if its repairable.
“ The metal thing is so heavy it needed two people to lift it out.”
“It flew about half a mile from where the sheep are kept on the neighbouring croft.”
Wind speeds of 90 mph were recorded at the South Uist rocket range during the storm