A customer who brought his car for a check-up got an unpleasant surprise yesterday after finding it crushed by a shipping container. High winds on Monday evening managed to slide the container off a stack at a depot at TC Associates in Industrial Park Road, Southampton.

According to sources in the area, two cars were badly damaged in the fall, which occurred at around 5.45pm as squalls blew across the Island. One car belonged to a worker in the business complex, while the other is understood to have been brought to a mechanic’s shop on the road.

No injuries were reported, but one source said that a truck had been driven past not long previously — adding that containers had been toppled at the site before by strong winds.

It comes as further high winds are forecast for later in the week, with potential for gale-force winds starting tomorrow evening.