Neighbours desperately helped to get children out the window of a smashed up house in East Kilbride after a lorry deliberately ploughed into it.
An eyewitness told the Daily Record how the “whole street” was out trying to “get the kids out of the back window” after the lorry rammed into the building leaving it in ruins.
We previously told how emergency services raced to the house on Lancaster Crescent in the Nerston area after the incident on Monday night.
Police confirmed the driver had deliberately carried out the smash and an investigation is underway.
A heavy goods HGV understood to be involved in the incident was found taped off by police in a nearby Lidl supermarket car park.
Images show rumble similar to that outside the house at the back of the lorry.
A man who lives on the same street as the incident told the Daily Record how he heard the lorry and thought at first it was having difficulty parking.
He said: “I saw the full thing. I heard the noise and I said to my son 'what was that?'
“He looked out the window and said it was an Eddie Stobart truck. I thought it was trying to go down the road or something.
“When I went out and saw it the house was already smashed so I thought he was having parking issues or something.
“But he then pulled out and reversed into the house again.
“By that point the full street was out and were trying to get the kids out of the back window of the home.
“It sounded like he had hit a car and when he pulled away there was glass and that all over the street.
“The house was starting to fall down. He definitely knew what he was doing - he then went flying out of the street.
“He knew how to drive a lorry.
“The police and fire engines were all out after that and there was loads of shouting. It was mad.”
A Police Scotland Spokesperson said: "An investigation is under way after a lorry was deliberately driven into a house in Lancaster Crescent on Monday 6 September 2021.
“Police were notified around 11.25pm. No-one was injured in the incident. The building has sustained extensive damage and local residents were evacuated as a precaution. Enquires are ongoing."
A spokesperson for Stobart Energy said: “Stobart Energy is aware of an incident involving an agency driver and one of its vehicles. The Company is actively supporting the police investigation.”
