L-R: Chris Ray (Incident support operative), Detective Superintendent Stuart Sedgwick and Paul Hodgkinson (Incident support operative) are pictured at Police HQ, Martlesham with the signs now displayed on bridges along the A14 and A12 after objects were thrown at motorists.

A LORRY driver has been left shaken after an item thrown from a bridge on the A14 hit the vehicle he was travelling in and smashed a window.

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A spokesman for Suffolk Police said the object had broken the driver’s side window of the articulated lorry, which was travelling along the A14 at Bury St Edmunds yesterday afternoon.

The driver escaped injury and was able to stop his vehicle in a nearby lay-by. He reported the incident to police at about 3.45pm but declined an ambulance.

The police spokesman said: “No-one was seriously hurt, but he (the driver) is shaken up.”

Police were told that someone had thrown an item from a bridge about one-and-a-half-miles before junction 42, travelling westbound.

The driver saw a suspect on the bridge, who is said to have run in the direction of Bury Bowl in Eastgate Street.

Several units including the police helicopter were immediately sent to the scene to search the area for anyone who may have been involved in the incident.

In a similar attack last month, police discovered that two eight-year-old boys were responsible for throwing objects at cars, lorries and an ambulance from a bridge on the A14 near Trimley St Mary. In the incident on December 15, a total of 13 vehicles had stones and rocks hurled at them, including the ambulance, which had its windscreen cracked.

Then more recently, on January 30, a lorry on the A14 was believed to have been shot at with a pellet gun, from a bridge.

Following the incident yesterday afternoon, police were reminding people to report any suspicious activity on bridges on any of Suffolk’s roads. They are also appealing for anyone with information in relation to the latest incident to call Suffolk Police on 101.