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| Essex A12 concrete attacks: Photo of victim's injuries shown | Essex A12 concrete attacks: Photo of victim's injuries shown |
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| Photographs of a woman's injuries caused when a concrete bollard was dropped on to a car on the A12 in Essex have been released by police. | Photographs of a woman's injuries caused when a concrete bollard was dropped on to a car on the A12 in Essex have been released by police. |
| Carol Manley was with her husband in a Nissan Ntec on 1 December when the bollard smashed through the windscreen. | |
| Mr Manley said he looked over to see his wife covered in blood. | |
| Earlier, on the same road, a lump of granite hit a Vauxhall Astra. Both incidents are being treated as attempted murder. | |
| Mrs Manley, a front-seat passenger, was hurt when the bollard was dropped from the West Hanningfield Bridge, near Galleywood, at about 22:00 GMT. | Mrs Manley, a front-seat passenger, was hurt when the bollard was dropped from the West Hanningfield Bridge, near Galleywood, at about 22:00 GMT. |
| 'Car destroyed" | |
| Eight miles away in Ingatestone, mother and daughter Stella and Lisa Horne were left shaken when their car was struck by a large rock dropped from Fryerning Lane Bridge on to the A12 forty minutes earlier. | Eight miles away in Ingatestone, mother and daughter Stella and Lisa Horne were left shaken when their car was struck by a large rock dropped from Fryerning Lane Bridge on to the A12 forty minutes earlier. |
| A reward of up to £3,000 has been offered to find those responsible. | A reward of up to £3,000 has been offered to find those responsible. |
| Mrs Manley's husband, Steve, said: "There was a bump on the roof of the car, as far as I could tell. | |
| "I thought I had hit something in the road. | |
| "When I turned around and looked at my wife to ask her what it was, I noticed that the front of the car was destroyed. | |
| "My wife was covered in blood. | |
| "There was a concrete block on her chest and leg." | |
| 'Blood pouring' | |
| Mr Manley said: "My first reaction was to try and get the concrete block off of my wife. | |
| "The concerns that were running through my mind were that my wife couldn't breathe, she couldn't see, there was blood pouring from her face. | |
| "I was concerned because she had an operation on a spinal injury about two or three years ago. | |
| "Only recently (she had) come out of hospital from having an operation on her stomach and the concrete block was on the stomach so you can understand I was in no state to know anything or do anything." | |
| Mr Manley said he had been driving at about 45mph and enjoying a "quiet conversation" with his wife when the block hit their vehicle. | |
| He escaped with minor cuts and bruises. | |
| His wife is now recovering at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. |