A MOTORIST is lucky to be alive after he was shot in the neck with a crossbow bolt on a quiet Worsbrough lane.
Brian Booker, 49, was driving home from his mother's house in the early hours of the morning when the arrow shattered the car window and embedded in the base of his neck.
He pulled over, called 999 and was taken to Barnsley hospital where the 25cm metal dart was removed after an x-ray revealed it had not punctured any major organs or arteries.
The married father-of-two, of Eaden Crescent, Hoyland said he did not know he had been hit at first and only realised when he reached up and felt the arrow sticking out of his neck.
He said: “I heard a sharp bang and a smash. I thought someone had thrown a brick through my window until I felt the arrow in my neck. I didn't feel it go in.
“I pulled further up the road because I was worried whoever had done it would do it again. It frightened me to death to be honest.”
