Early on Friday morning in Campbell Street, Darvel, Jim and Mary Ann Gebbie received an unexpected and unfortunate surprise when they went out their front door. Their Almera had been parked as usual outside their house but this morning the car had been totally written off!

Jim and Mary Ann's Nissan Almera now!

Having lived in this house in Darvel for over 25 years without incident Jim and Mary Ann confirmed Campbell Street itself was usually quiet with light traffic on most occasions.

A total mystery, they telephoned the local police station who took all their details and did a door to door search for answers. Two police officers knocked on the door of Stephen and Barbara King just across the road who had received a delivery that very morning. Barbara waited in as she was expecting their new Dish Washer they had bought from Curry’s. The Dish Washer had been delivered just after 8 am – about the same time as the Almera had been smashed to such an extent it had pushed into their neighbour’s car which had been parked close by!

After the Almera had been hit a large white delivery van was seen leaving Campbell Street at full speed without leaving any contact details behind.

Damage at back of car caused when Almera was pushed into their neighbour's car!

Shortly after the police received the delivery details from Barbara King, a representative from the White Van Man’s insurance company turned up at Mr and Mrs Gebbie’s door to make an assessment of the damage! The insurance rep explained the driver had not been aware he had hit anything that morning which was the reason he did not stop and leave his details!

Which seems rather strange because the insurance representative from the driver’s company certainly turned up pretty quickly.

About the same time as the insurance rep was sweeping up the debris from the road, URsTV met up with Paul Whittering who runs Lanfine Contract Limited with his brother. Lanfine is a local textile manufacturer based in Campbell Street and it would appear a member of their staff actually witnessed the accident taking place that morning.

Unfortunately, this member of staff had already left for the day and would not be returning to work until Monday morning.  Mr Whittering has kindly allowed us to contact him on Monday to ask his member of staff for a short interview to help fill in some more details.

If there are any other witnesses to this incident please contact us or send in your comments on this article.