‘Our car windscreen was cracked when a meteorite hit it from out of space’

The family car was wrecked by a falling space rock (Picture: SWNS)

A family was left shocked after their car windscreen was shattered by a falling piece of meteorite.

Paul Butler, 55, and his family were watching TV at home on Boxing Day when they heard a loud bang outside, but dismissed the noise as fireworks and went to bed.

The next morning, Paul went outside his home in Stratford-upon-Avon to discover his car windshield had been shattered, with a number of strange stones lying nearby.