Lisa Horne - "A bang and my windscreen just shattered"

Mum of two Lisa Horne had been returning from a day’s Christmas shopping at Lakeside with her mum Stella Horne on Thursday, December 1, 2011 when a large rock smashed through the windscreen of her Vauxhall Astra.

The 26-year-old, who is from Chelmsford, was passing under the Fryerning Lane Bridge near Ingatestone when the rock struck her car just before 9.30pm.

This was the first of two similar incidents on the A12 on the same day. Thirty minutes later, a block of concrete struck a Nissan ntec as it passed under West Hanningfield Road Bridge near Galleywood.

The occupants, a 56-year-old man and his 57-year-old wife from Harold Hill in east London, were injured. The woman suffered multiple rib and facial injuries and is in Broomfield Hospital in a stable condition. Her husband suffered minor cuts and bruises.

Police are treating both incidents as attempted murder and have released images of a rock and a concrete block recovered close to the scenes of the incidents.

Lisa said: “It was as if someone had put their hands over my eyes. I just heard a bang and my windscreen was shattered. I couldn’t work out what had happened.”