Teenager drops boulder onto courier van
Date: 21 December 2007
A teenager could have killed the driver of a delivery van when he dropped a rock onto his vehicle.
The BBC reports that at 1.10pm on Tuesday (December 18th), a Parceline courier delivery van was passing under a railway bridge on the B724 in Dumfriesshire when a boy aged between 12 and 15 dropped a boulder, and it shattered the windscreen.
The youth fled the scene.
Fortunately the 27-year-old driver was not hurt, but Parceline depot manager Ged Riley said it could have been horrific.
"When we have assessed the vehicle and the damage it seems that the boulder has actually hit exactly where the driver was," he said.
"If this boulder had gone through the windscreen I am under no illusion that the driver could potentially be dead. He could have swerved and hit other traffic so the potential for fatalities there is horrendous."
He added that people "do this just for a rush" and don't think about the consequences.
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