Dinghy inflated out of car window at 40mph

Pedestrians were horrified to see the passenger in the VW Golf wind down the window, hang the dingy outside, then start blowing it up as the driver cruised along a busy main road. The dinghy was inflated to full capacity before it began flapping in the wind and narrowly missed people on the pavement.

A motorcyclist was so shocked he filmed the incident along the A5 in Llangollen, in Denbighshire, north Wales, using a video camera fitted to his helmet. North Wales Police said they are studying the footage and could prosecute for dangerous driving. Motorcycle instructor Nigel Bowers, a 52-year old retired policeman, from Staffordshire, filmed the incident on May 22.



He said: ‘I was utterly shocked at what I saw and couldn’t believe how irresponsible the people were. I had been out training and I had the cameras on and when I saw the car I couldn’t resist following it. I couldn’t believe my eyes. At first, from distance, I thought it was a parasol, but as it got larger I realised it was a dinghy.

‘There are a couple of points where they pass pedestrians and they do come close to knocking them over.’ A spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said: ‘Why anybody would want to do this is beyond us.’

You can see the video here.