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A MORTIFIED driver has told how her runaway car wiped out Andy Murray’s iconic golden postbox — after she stopped to buy Irn-Bru.
Demy Chalk, 59, suffered a bumped head after desperately trying to stop her Mercedes estate as it rolled downhill before toppling the ace’s Olympic tribute.
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She revealed she had parked the automatic motor outside a Co-op in Dunblane, Perthshire, to pop in for some fizzy juice.
But she frantically tried to get back in the car after the handbrake failed and it careered away from her at around 7.50pm on Monday.
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The mum-of-three Demy — whose husband plays tennis with Andy’s mum Judy — said: “I’m still alive but I was really shocked.
“I’d only gone to the shop to buy Irn-Bru.
“I thought I had put on the brake on and turned off the engine.
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“You push the brake with your foot but it can’t have worked.
“I tried to get back in but I fell back and bumped my head and hurt my ankle.
“The postbox went down when the car hit it but it stopped the vehicle completely.”
Repairmen from Royal Mail re-erected the postbox in concrete and gave it a new lick of paint.
It was first turned gold by the postal service in honour of Andy’s London 2012 gold medal win over Roger Federer.
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Retired hairdresser Demy joked: “Now I’m famous because I hit Andy Murray’s golden postbox.
“It was really quiet and fortunately there was no one about. There are no dents to the postbox. I’m glad it’s back up again.”
It’s understood Demy won’t be charged by cops because the crash was caused by a handbrake failure rather than human error.
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