Concrete dropped onto A12 was attempted murder, say police
A woman has been hospitalised with life-threatening injuries after concrete blocks were thrown from bridges in Essex onto cars below.
A woman passenger suffered serious head and chest injuries when the block smashed the windscreen of her car as it passed under the West Hanningfield bridge on the A12. The driver of the vehicle suffered cuts.
Half an hour earlier two people were left shaken after a block went through their windscreen by Fryerning Lane bridge.
Jon Brain reports.
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