10 May 2024 , 14:33
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A lamppost crashed down on a busy road - just seconds after a Tesla had passed underneath.
Tim Redpath, 58, says he "dodged a bullet" in Windsor, Berkshire on Thursday night. The dad-of-three was driving through the royal town when he noticed a lamppost at an angle. Footage from his Tesla shows the lamppost then falling - moments after he had gone underneath its path.
Tim, who lives near Andover, Hampshire, said: "I was picking my wife up from work in Windsor last night and driving back home. We do this trip once a week every Thursday at about the same time. We left at six, and normally the traffic is quite heavy with quite a lot of pedestrians and tourists - but thankfully it wasn't last night.
"As we drove up to the lamppost we saw people looking at it. It's very close to the castle. I looked in the rear-view mirror and heard a crash and saw the thing in the road, right behind us. We certainly dodged a bullet there. It was quite incredible there weren't any pedestrians or a stream of traffic behind us.
"I would say if it fell three seconds earlier, we wouldn't be here. The noise it made when it came down - it was one of those old, cast-iron lampposts - I'm fairly certain there wouldn't be a lot left of us. It fell 90 degrees across the road... We were quite shocked and pulled over to check nobody was hurt."
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Footage from the car's front camera shows the lamppost leaning before crashing into the road. A man walking past appears shocked as the post falls. Tim, a music teacher, added: "I've never seen a lamppost fall like that before. "There must have been something wrong with the foundations.
"Maybe it was something to do with the heat, as it was very hot. I would imagine someone's in trouble this morning."