An expert on machine safety watched in disbelief as his Jaguar was “devoured” by a Sainsbury’s supermarket car wash.
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The Daily Telegraph reported that Richard Wrigley, whose company advises firms throughout the UK, faces a GBP3,000 repair bill for the 10-year-old XJ6 after the machine mangled the boot and a door.
Wrigley who had two grandchildren in the rear of the vehicle at the time, reportedly had used the car wash without problems many times before at the store in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, near his home.
He told the paper: “I glanced in my rear mirror and saw something red, after a few seconds I realised it was my boot lid. I thought ‘Oh, s**t’. I thought it would cut out but the machinery kept going on and on.”
A Sainsbury’s spokesman told the Daily Telegraph: “The car wash has been taken out of use and we have had it inspected by the company that supplied it.”
