By Brendan Rees
A Berwick woman has told of her shock after thugs hurled a milk carton at her car, shattering the windscreen.
Barb Davies was travelling along Cresthaven Boulevard in Berwick when her windscreen was struck by the object at 12.53pm on Friday 25 October.
“I didn’t even see it flying in the air to be honest, it happened that quickly,” she said.
“It just completely shattered my windscreen and glass all over the dash.”
Ms Davies was on her way to an appointment, driving just under 50km/h, when the incident occurred.
She said she pulled over straight away and was helped by bystanders who found the one litre milk carton about 10 metres down the road “completely ripped apart”.
“One picked up the item off the road because they questioned ‘What’s happened? What’s happened?’
“I just ended up on the side of the road shaking like leaf.
“I had to pull myself together and sort of work out what was going on … I rang my husband and he came and calmed me down,” she said.
Luckily Ms Davies was not injured and is thankful the cartoon didn’t go through her windscreen.
She hopes to have her car repaired later this week but will be “out of my pocket unfortunately.”
Ms Davies, who posted dash cam footage of the incident on Facebook in the hope to find the culprits, said she was quite upset with the amount of “nasty” messages she had received from strangers about the cost of repair.
“It’s really frustrating me. The quote alone was $1,400; that’s not even the towing,” she said.
Witnesses weren’t able to obtain a registration of the offending car which is described as a grey Mitsubishi ASX SUV 2019 model.
Ms Davies is currently using her husband’s work car to get to work and has decided not to use Cresthaven Boulevard.
The milk carton has been handed to police for fingerprinting.
Victoria Police has been contacted for comment.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
