East Kilbride Village deli destroyed after car smashes into shopfront

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The owners of a local deli have been left counting the cost after a car ploughed through the shopfront on Friday night leaving a trail of destruction.Police and fire crews raced to the scene of the crash at Deli EK on Kirkton Park in East Kilbride Village at around 7.45pm on Friday.Dramatic images sent to Lanarkshire Live showed police officers on the scene inspecting the vehicle which had smashed through brick and a glass window before coming to a stop on the shop floor.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Our thoughts are with the driver and his family."The layout of the parking bays in front of the shops is as it always has been and we don’t see any problem with that.

The problem has arisen with the growth of takeaways in the area and the demand for parking spaces at certain times. This is an issue that we have previously