Woman ‘forced’ to quit her job after DHL lorry crashed into her car outside Trumpington home

The incident happened during the first day of the summer holidays

A mum claims she was forced to quit her job after her car was crashed into by a lorry. Chantelle Sandy says her car was crashed into by a DHL vehicle outside her Trumpington home, leaving her without a way of getting to work.

The 33-year-old single mum claims her BMW car was parked outside her house on a pavement when the HGV hit it at the start of the school summer holidays. The BMW was damaged significantly and was written off.

Chantelle says she was offered a courtesy car for two weeks, but was then left without a vehicle for the rest of summer, which she says “ruined a lot of our plans for the holidays”. The mum, who works as a school caterer in the Thetford area relies on her car to get to work.I

She said the stress of it all, combined with not having a car led her to quit her job. She said: “I was off for the holidays luckily, but trying to work out a plan to go back to work and the amount of stress it caused me, I just didn’t feel like I could return to work. There was no way I could get where I needed to be with public transport in time to do my job.”

Ms Sandy had spent five years paying off her car and claimed she received less than half the money she had paid. When the payout came through, she was able to get new car but not in time for the start of the school year.

She added: “I worked really hard to get that car and the car I have got now, yeah it’s a car, but it’s not the car that I should have or that I worked for.”

A spokesperson for DHL Supply Chain said: “We apologise for the inconvenience caused to Ms Sandy. We managed the incident swiftly and it is now being handled by the relevant insurers.”