A COUPLE returning home from a wedding with their kids have been left scarred for life after yobs dropped a slab onto their taxi from a pedestrian bridge.
Amanda Finlay, her husband Terry and their children, aged eight and 11, were on their way back to Glenrothes when it happened.
The family could have been killed and Amanda initially thought Terry was going to die after catching sight of the blood pouring from his wounds.
The family had been travelling along the B921 from Kirkcaldy when a 12in piece of concrete crashed through their taxi windscreen and smashed into Terry's face.
Amanda told the Record: "It came out of nowhere. We didn't see anything from the road, not a person, another car, nothing.
"Suddenly there was a huge smashing noise. We thought we had crashed into another car at first.
"We couldn't believe it was a big brick that had been launched through our windscreen.
The slab fell 16ft from the flyover directly into the passenger side of the vehicle, smashing into 36-year-old Terry's face and tearing open the skin around his eyebrow and eyelids.
The glass from the shattered windscreen flew into the back seats of the taxi and into Amanda, leaving her with a deep gash across her skull.
Thankfully, the couple's children avoided injury.
Amanda, 37, said: "I felt a seriously sharp stabbing pain in my head. I put my hand to my skull and there was blood all over my hand.
"I just kept thinking, 'What was that? Are the kids hurt? Are they OK?' It was really scary. I was so worried in case the kids were hurt.
"We came to a sudden stop and the kids were screaming we had no idea what had just happened.
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