Bonnet smashes windscreen
- Published: 12/06/2007
A woman from the Dorset town of Verwood managed a narrow escape recently - after her bonnet flung open and smashed her windscreen as she was driving along a motorway.
Cardiff University graduate Alison Masters was travelling at 70 mph on the outside of the M27 near Romsey in Hampshire when her bonnet suddenly ripped free of its anchoring and smashed backwards into the windscreen.
"I could not see anything so I had to negotiate my way on to the central reservation. I was covered in shards of glass from the broken windscreen," the 21-year-old told the Salisbury journal.
Ms Masters has been told that her car is now a write-off because of the damage sustained - but luckily she was insured.
She claims that Renault and the faulty clips on its Clio II model are to blame for the accident. Despite the fact that the clips have been highlighted on various consumer watchdog programmes, the French automaker asserts that it has found no construction or design faults with Clio II's bonnet moorings.
Cardiff University graduate Alison Masters was travelling at 70 mph on the outside of the M27 near Romsey in Hampshire when her bonnet suddenly ripped free of its anchoring and smashed backwards into the windscreen.
"I could not see anything so I had to negotiate my way on to the central reservation. I was covered in shards of glass from the broken windscreen," the 21-year-old told the Salisbury journal.
Ms Masters has been told that her car is now a write-off because of the damage sustained - but luckily she was insured.
She claims that Renault and the faulty clips on its Clio II model are to blame for the accident. Despite the fact that the clips have been highlighted on various consumer watchdog programmes, the French automaker asserts that it has found no construction or design faults with Clio II's bonnet moorings.