Vandals have targeted another car in Swansea by releasing its handbrake and letting it roll into another vehicle.
The incident in Penlan Crescent, Mount Pleasant , was revealed shortly after a string of cars were targeted in Terrace Road, leaving them with broken windows.
The owner of one of the cars damaged on the evening of May 29 last week revealed it was hit by another vehicle which rolled down Swansea's steepest residential street - Constitution Hill, which has a gradient of 20% - after vandals smashed a window and released the handbrake.
Now another motorist, whose car windows were smashed on the same night, has revealed his vehicle was targeted a fortnight earlier, when the handbrake was also released.
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The Swansea University student, who lives in Penlan Crescent in Mount Pleasant, said: “I had a knock on my door and it was police who told me my car had rolled down the hill.
“It hadn’t gone very far, just a metre or two but it had gone into a builder’s trailer and broken an indicator light.
“I went to see them (the owners of the trailer) and they weren’t very happy.
“The glove box had been ripped open but they hadn’t taken anything. Then two weeks later the windows were broken.
“It’s just needless vandalism. I could understand if someone had wanted to take something, but I had some stuff in the boot that wasn’t touched.
“It’s got to the point where I just don’t want to leave my car in Swansea any more.”
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Fortunately, both cars which had their handbrakes released didn’t travel very far while out of control.
But in the Constitution Hill incident the vehicle rolled into another car with such force the stationary car had to be written off.
Residents living in Mount Pleasant have said vehicles are frequently been targeted by vandals, and they have also complained of drug use and drug dealing, as well as prostitution .
They claimed sex workers were carrying out their business in cars parked outside people's homes and some had even found people lying in their gardens suffering from the effects of drugs.
Many claimed a police crackdown on sex workers in nearby High Street had moved the problem to their community.
Police have urged residents to report every instance of criminal behaviour.
A spokesman for South Wales Police said anyone with information about the damage to cars in Mount Pleasant carried out on the evening of Wednesday, May 29, should contact them by calling 101, quoting occurrence 1900194154.
