Schumi involved in pedestrian crash in Kent

Michael Schumacher has had another motoring mishap, this time at the wheel of a Fiat Ducato van. He reportedly clipped a car dealer’s leg as he drove through the town of Lydd on Sunday afternoon (he was on his way to an airfield to catch a private jet). Martin Kingham, the unlucky dealer, described the incident as follows: “Out of nowhere I heard a bang from behind me. It spun me round and I was thrown forward on to my face, hitting the bonnet of a parked van. Then I saw a big blue van go by and realised they’d hit me. I thought I recognised the driver, but my head was spinning.”

Schumi reacted with typical contrition and good manners: he screamed “What the fucking hell were you doing in the road!” at Kingham and then refused to apologise. We couldn’t make it up.