Shane Su­perville

A 20-year-old woman drove her car in­to a ban­dit who tried to rob her and her fa­ther in Pe­nal on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said the woman and her 40-year-old fa­ther went to Fazal Av­enue, at around noon to sell their brown Kia Sportage to a man they met on­line.

Both fa­ther and daugh­ter met two men who they thought were the cus­tomers.

The fa­ther got out of the car to open the bon­net for the men to in­spect the ve­hi­cle. How­ev­er, two gun­men ran out of near­by bush­es to rob them.

The daugh­ter, who was still in the car, ob­served the com­mo­tion and drove off with the ve­hi­cle, knock­ing down one of the ban­dits and crash­ing in­to a wall. An­oth­er ban­dit shot at the car hit­ting the right side of the bon­net.

The armed men then ran to a Nis­san AD Wag­on that was parked near­by and sped off.

Of­fi­cers from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion and South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force were called in and searched for the ban­dits but did not find any­one.

The white Nis­san AD Wag­on was lat­er found aban­doned on Sun­rees Trace, Pe­nal.

The fa­ther and daugh­ter were un­harmed.