Shot fired at van driver
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LORRY DRIVER Jack Raven was looking forward to his supper and a few pints after a day on the road. But he ended the day with a shot being fired at him when he became involved in a dramatic shotgun robbery in which a Securicor guard died.
Mr Raven, 35-year-old driver for Bonner's of Welling, Kent, a removal company, left his depot on Saturday morning to deliver furniture to Colchester in his 18cwt Austin with his mate, Mr Dave Smith.
Mr Raven said: "We were on the inside lane of the A2 northbound coming up to the Bexley border. As we came downhill I saw all these cars stopped on both sides of the motorway. I didn't twig what was going on at first and then I saw this masked man aiming the shotgun.
"I swerved out on to the outside lane and across the central reservation and aimed my van at the gunman. I had to screech to a halt because the Securicor guard was sprawled out on the road.
"I jammed on the brakes to prevent myself from hitting him, then a gunman fired a shot at us ordering us to stay where we were.
"I saw the gunman beat up one of the guards and he looked as though he had dipped his head in a bucket of red paint he was so covered in blood."
When the gunmen made off with sacks of money up the motorway embankment Mr Raven ran after them with a policeman who arrived on the scene but when they reached the top of the embankment the men had gone.