8 Jan, 2024 @ 16:37
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EXCLUSIVE: British expat’s warning after a ‘rock is launched at her windshield’ while driving on the A-7 motorway from Malaga to Marbella

DAMAGED: British expat's car following terrifying incident (COPYRIGHT: Olive Press Spain)

A BRITISH expat is sounding the alarm after her car windshield was ‘hit by a rock’ while driving under a bridge on the A-7 motorway.

The young estate agent was travelling from Malaga Airport to Marbella on Saturday night when the ‘terrifying’ incident took place.

It happened near the Fuengirola hockey club on the A-7 motorway, which is used by hundreds of tourists and British expats everyday.

The expat, who asked not to be named, told the Olive Press today: “It was 10.15pm at night and we were driving back from the airport, then all of a sudden I heard a massive loud bang and it was just as we had come underneath the bridge.

DAMAGED: British expat’s car following terrifying incident (COPYRIGHT: Olive Press Spain)

“I thought it was a gunshot at first because it was so loud but then I obviously saw the window.

“My husband saw the rock hit the windshield and bounce into the road, we were so lucky it didn’t cause an accident. If it had smashed through the window it would have hit my husband and he could have easily swerved and lost control.

READ MORE: Four teenagers who ‘threw rocks at cars on the A-7 motorway’ are quizzed by police

“I’ve reported it to the police and I’m going down to the station today to make an official report, it’s supposedly been happening a lot down the coast.”

It comes after police last month quizzed four teenagers for allegedly throwing rocks at passing cars.

The gang, aged between 13 and 15, smashed the windshields of at least two vehicles and one lorry.

According to police, the youths were targeting cars at the La Cañada shopping centre before moving to the Trapiche bridge.

They were tracked down by police following multiple denuncias, before being handed over to the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office.

It comes after another group of teens were caught throwing rocks at buses as they passed through Calle Doctor Muguerza Bernal in Malaga in November.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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