JOYRIDERS smashed their stolen car into a Baptist pastor’s parked Toyota and ran off before residents could get much more than a glimpse of them.

The Rev David Parsons, who leads the Baptist Church in Highfield Road, Dartford, will have to take up a part-time job to fork out £250 in repairs.

The culprits, who residents say were in their early 20s, rammed the side of his car outside his home, in King Edward Avenue, at 10pm last Sunday.

Repairs will include a new front wing and body work to the front of the car.

Mr Parsons said: “There was a tremendous screech of brakes. It was so loud I immediately looked out of the window and saw they had crashed into my car.

“I dashed down but they had run off by then.” One of the joyriders was spotted running off towards Tin Bridge while the other headed up Dartford Road towards West Hill.

One of the men was wearing a white T-shirt with a V logo on the back.

A north Kent police spokesman said the stolen car was taken from outside the bingo hall, in Spital Street, between 5.15pm and 9pm that evening.

Neighbour Sonia Keane, 50, said: “It was such a crash half the street came out. The car was embedded in the pastor’s car.” It is the third crime to rock the community in as many weeks. Mrs Keane says residents are fed up with the amount of crime in the West Hill area.

Last week a man was beaten unconscious on the same road and, the week before, a car was set alight by vandals around the corner in Priory Hill.

Call 01322 280055 with information.