The Indian-origin family involved in the car accident with Ant McPartlin has lashed out at the television for not coming out of his vehicle or apologising for crashing into them.
Restaurant owner Faheem Vanoo was driving the vehicle when McPartlin crashed into them. He was accompanied by is wife Shilpa Dandekar and four-year-old daughter Amaira and two colleagues when the accident happened. None of them suffered serious injuries.
"I don't care whether he's a millionaire and I don't care whether he's a famous TV star he could have put my daughter in a wheelchair," Vanoo told the Sun' newspaper. "His Mini came flying around a sharp corner on the wrong side of the road trying to overtake a blue car we were all wearing seat belts and my little girl was strapped into a child seat. But it was still a big impact, said the 41-year-old.
McPartlin was sitting slumped at the wheel behind car air bags after the collision.
"I was so angry with him I lost my cool and tried to run up to him and smash his face I had to be held back After I calmed down someone asked him if he was ok but he never said a word to us and never apologised, said Dandekar.
"The horn of his car was blaring and my little girl was crying in shock. It was a terrible, chaotic scene. It was a little while later before I realised it was Ant," recalled the 36-year-old chef, who suffered a bruised lip in the accident.
The family were on their way to their restaurant Pure Indian in London when the accident happened.
McPartlin's show Saturday Night Takeaway has been taken off the air for while he has checked into rehab.
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