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Nigel Farage ‘legs it’ after his driver crashed with Jag carrying 13-month-old toddler in Kent
The Brexit Party boss said he checked nobody was hurt before leaving
NIGEL Farage legged it after his chauffeur-driven 4x4 crashed head-on with a Jag carrying a toddler, it was claimed last night.
Pub landlord Patrick Tranter says son George, 13 months, was badly shaken by the Kent smash.
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He said of Brexit Party boss Farage, 55: “He didn’t even bother to see if we were OK.”
The pint-loving politician has now been banned from Mr Tranter’s pub amid the claims he walked away from the smash.
Furious Patrick Tranter, who needed hospital treatment, told The Sun: “He lives two miles away and loves a pint, but he won’t get one from me. Man of the people, my arse. As far as I’m concerned he’s barred.”
Last night Mr Farage insisted he checked nobody was hurt and claimed Patrick was abusive. He said he had visited the George and Dragon in Westerham, Kent, in the past but added: “If I’m banned, then it’s not too terrible is it?”
Patrick, 38, had dropped off his wife at the station and was driving home when his vintage Jag collided head-on with Mr Farage’s chauffeur-driven Range Rover on Thursday morning.
Son George, 13 months, was in his seat in the back. He was also rushed to hospital.
SCREAMING TODDLER
Patrick said: “We crashed with an enormous bang. Farage could not possibly have failed to hear George screaming. I ran out to see if my little boy was OK.
“Farage stepped out of the Range Rover, collected his bag from the boot and walked off.
“He didn’t have the common decency to see if we were OK, and never even looked back.
“God knows where (he went) as it was a country lane. He just vanished. I turned around and asked one of his people, ‘Is that Farage?’ and she said yes.
“It would be pure speculation to guess how fast his car was going but it is his response which has really p***ed me off.
“His driver Dean Chapman confirmed it was him but I was dumbfounded by his behaviour. Who does he think he is?”
Patrick says his 1986 Jaguar Series 3 Sovereign was written off in the smash in Titsey at 9.30am.
Ex-Ukip leader Mr Farage, the driver and another passenger escaped injury because their motor had airbags.
He continued with campaigning for his Brexit Party ahead of the European elections.
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Later he clashed with Change UK’s Anna Soubry on BBC TV’s Question Time in Northampton.
Patrick did not vote in the 2016 EU referendum and said he would not dream of backing Mr Farage’s new party.
He added: “If he’d asked how I was he would have recognised me.
“I worked with his daughter Victoria at a wedding a year ago.
“The cars crashed with so much force that my car was pushed back into the bushes on the other side of the road.
“His driver was really courteous and waited by our car. He called the police and ambulance too.”
'THE OTHER DRIVER WAS ABUSIVE'
Patrick and George — described as distressed by the ambulance service — were taken to Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington. Patrick had neck and shoulder injuries and possible whiplash.
Mr Farage said last night: “The driver of the other car was abusive. He was swearing very loudly and after accidents people do all sorts of things. It was a pretty full-on smash and I understand why people can be a bit shocked.
“Once I had ascertained that everyone was OK I made discreet withdrawal from the situation.
“I didn’t think that me, with a rather a well-known face, going into that situation would have helped anything or anybody.
“Had anybody been hurt I would have stayed and waited for the ambulance.
“I just thought there was nothing to be added by me talking to him.
“I didn’t hear his child screaming so I walked up the road.”
Mr Farage said he had drunk at Patrick’s pub but wouldn’t be back.
Police are not investigating any offences relating to the accident.
A TORY Party backer, Crystal Palace and Flybe investor Jeremy Hoskins, has switched his allegiance and donated £200,000 to the Brexit Party.
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THE prang is not the first time Mr Farage has survived a crash on the campaign trail.
Passers-by hauled him from the wreck of a two-seater plane carrying a Ukip banner in 2010.
Covered in blood, he was taken to hospital following the crash at Hinton-in-the-Hedges airfield near Brackley, Northants.
Mr Farage, treated for head injuries, said after: “I thought I would die.”
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