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Metal slab slices into car                       19/12/13

 

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

 

Hebrides News: North Uist storm damage