‘I’m a broadband engineer – a man nearly ran me over just because I was working’

Adrian, a field engineer for a telecoms giant, has faced abuse while out on jobs (Picture: Openreach/Getty/Metro)

All Adrian was doing was his job when the car drove at him.

The senior engineer for the telecom company Openreach was carrying out repairs in Midhurst, Surrey, last June, as he’d done so many times before.

It was a simple enough fix for a vulnerable customer, one that involved closing down the road, Rumbolds Hill, with the council’s permission.

‘I was in a road box...