A man from Kilkenny has warned drivers to lock their doors when out and about after his wife had a terrifying experience in ‘broad daylight’.
The driving test specialist who runs the ‘Road Sense Kilkenny’ TikTok account told his story in a short video warning others to lock their doors no matter what.
He explained that his wife had just dropped his son off to work at around 8:30 in the morning and was driving home.
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Despite it being busy and early in the day, a man tried to force his way into the car and was only stopped thanks to an automatic door lock that meant he had no way in.
In the short video, he said: “Morning everybody! Listen, just a quick warning video for people and maybe, please share just so people might see this.
“My wife was driving down John’s Street this morning on her own after drop[ing my son to work and luckily enough we have an automatic lock on her car - so once you go up above 10km/h all the doors lock.
“Some scumbag tried to jump into the car beside her, and was pulling on the door handle”.
He went on to say: “Two things, I suppose lucky the car was locked so he couldn’t get in and the second thing was they had the dog in the car, so the dog went mental, so he wasn’t going to get into the car anyway.
“So I suppose, girls or anyone driving around in an older car that might not have any lock, it’s no harm to lock your doors.
“Because like if he is trying to get into the car for some reason, demand money, demand or try and grab her handbag, god only knows, there’s lots of strange things happening around town lately.
“So if you’re out driving on your own, or even with someone, you know you might have your handbag in the back of the car, just lock the car doors to be safer”.
He reiterated the circumstanced of the incident because many people will feel something like this wouldn’t happen during the day with witnesses around.
“This was right on John’s Street at 8:30 am in broad daylight with plenty of traffic moving along and he had no qualms about trying to force his way into the car,” he said.
”There are people out there that will always try and pull a fast one or could mean you harm and you know, better safe than sorry”.
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