Fallen tree damages 3 cars

• Guest 645

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  22 March 2008     13:22621
  #1      
  At about 11.00am this morning a badly storm damaged tree snapped in todays high winds and fell on 3 parked cars in the Council Car Park behind St Marys Church and opposite Sommerfields.
  It appeared to my untrained eye that all three cars had sustained varying degrees of damage.What a poor start to Easter for the car owners.
  
  I wonder who pays for the repairs?.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  22 March 2008     17:57631
  #2      
  Picture just in from Claire Barham of the offending tree with bits of it still attached to the car on the right. Mercifully we have heard of no injuries.
  

  

  
  
  Many thanks Claire .Good to see you at the Party last week - ah y'see all this party networking pays off !!
  Many thanks to Marek as ever
  
  two ace roving reporters there
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 659

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  24 March 2008     11:33694
  #3      
  Hi Paul (and Claire if you are on) Is there any chance of emailing your pic to the Express so we can show what happened? We will make sure you are credited for the photo. If you are happy to send it the address is kathy.bailes@krnmedia.co.uk (that's k r n, I know it looks like km).
  Hope the cars weren't damaged too much, don't expect to pop to the shops and come back to a crushed car do you?
• Guest 665

  • Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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  24 March 2008     16:22695
  #4      
  No problem Kathy, will do. We were in town and heard about the fallen tree and rushed back thinking our car might have been hit as we had parked there. Fortunately it wasn't but I did feel sorry for those who weren't so lucky. Still, it could have been a lot worse and someone could have been hurt but as far as I know they weren't.
• tinkerbell

  • Location: Dover
  24 March 2008     18:30698
  #5      
  That looks like it could have done a fair bit of damage! Has anyone heard whether anyone was hurt, let's hope not!
• Guest 659

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  24 March 2008     18:50700
  #6      
  Thanks Claire. Do you know if there was much damage to the cars? I haven't heard that anyone was hurt and think it would have cropped up somewhere by now
• DaveL

  • Location: Dover
  24 March 2008     22:11701
  #7      
  No-one was injured. The cars were empty at the time. The worst damage caused was a large dent to the roof of a rover that was parked in the middle. The other cars had minor scrathes to the roofs.
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  25 March 2008     09:42709
  #8      
  Kathy I was away for most of yesterday so didnt see your request til now. I see Claire has looked after you. If you need anything further let me know.
  
  
  email: dover7@msn.com