Moment bungling delivery driver wrecks garden lawn after reversing van over it and getting wheels stuck
- Kevin Ashton, 50, was left furious after deep gouge marks were left on the grass
- Parcel was being delivered to his neighbours in Dudley, West Midlands
- The delivery driver took an hour to free his vehicle from the family’s garden lawn
- Footage shows van wheels becoming stuck as driver pulls out driveway
- One social media user asked: ‘Why not just reverse out the way he came in?’
Shocking footage captures a delivery driver destroys a family’s lawn with his van after making an ill-judged maneouvre.
The driver, thought to be delivering for Amazon, took an hour to free the vehicle from the garden after becoming stuck.
Kevin Ashton, 50, was left furious after deep gouge marks were left on his lawn from where the wheels had dug into the rain-soaked grass.
The driver destroyed a lawn after he reversed out of a driveway and his wheels became stuck. He was delivering a parcel for the family’s neighbours in Dudley, West Midlands
The damage left by the delivery driver’s ill-judged maneouvre, with deep gouge marks left on the lawn from where the wheels of the silver van had dug into the rain-soaked grass
Kevin Ashton, 50, pictured with his wife, Adele. The mechanical engineer was left furious at the incident, with his daughter describing it as ‘completely and utterly disrespectful’
The wrecked garden does not even belong to the person who was expecting the delivery, but to their neighbours.
Mr Ashton captured the footage at his home in Dudley, West Midlands, last night.
The mechanical engineer posted the footage on Facebook, writing: ‘What a f***** b******. Would you turn round on someone’s front lawn ffs? Amazon delivery driver.’
The video shows a silver van pull into the driveway and one of the passengers jumping out to hand over the parcel. The driver then reverses.
But rather than use the T-shaped space designed for the manoeuvre, he swings the front wheels over the rain-sodden lawn. Turf and mud can be seen flying as the wheels spin.
Another clip shows the delivery team using planks and sheets of wood in order to gain traction against the soft ground to get themselves out of the situation.
The astonishing footage shows the delivery team using planks and sheets of wood (left) to get themselves out of the situation, before washing their hands with a bottle of water (right)
An aerial view of Mr Ashton’s home, showing how the drive is designed to allow vehicles to manoeuvre without driving over the lawn
Mr Ashton posted footage of the delivery team and pictures of the wrecked garden to Facebook, with one social media user questioning the driver’s methods
After finally getting the van off of the grass, the men can be seen washing their hands with bottles of water.
Speaking today, Mr Ashton said: ‘It’s a dead end and it happens often but this is the first time anyone has got stuck. Idiot.’
Mr Ashton’s daughter, Sophie, 19, said: ‘It is completely and utterly disrespectful for what this driver has done.’
One social media user said: ‘This requires the full video sped up with Benny Hill music.’
Another questioned: ‘Why not just reverse out the way he came in? Or stay off the drive all together?’