A BICESTER man whose car windows were smashed by migrants in Calais has warned holidaymakers from the county to avoid the port in the coming weeks.

Rhys Williams was driving along the approach to the port when a large concrete boulder was thrown through the window of his Mercedes A-class.

The grandfather-of-three said he was lucky it was a business trip as any children in the back of the car may not have survived.

He said: "They used to target the trucks but now no vehicle is safe - they are doing anything they can to stop the traffic so they can climb into stationary trucks.

"I don't want to scare people but with Oxfordshire only a couple of hours away from a coast and the next two weeks being peak holiday season - there will be a lot of people making their way to Calais.

"It's really not a place families should be travelling through.

"I was covered in glass in my car and the scary thing is that if there had been a child in the back of my car they may not be here to tell the tale."

The 53-year-old, who works as an operations manager for the Road Haulage Association, had the front and back doors on the side of his car damaged by the attack in the early hours earlier this month.

With more holidaymakers expected to cross the border in the next fortnight the Bicester man issued a word of caution.

He said: "It's absolute mayhem out there and I'm worried that it's not been in the media enough about what is going on.

"It's not something you want to witness or be involved in."

The Oxfordshire representative of RHA said the county's lorry drivers were also having a hard time as migrants developed innovative ways to break into their vehicles.

He added that migrants were often getting out of the vehicles at their drivers first stop which is invariably Oxfordshire.

He said: "Migrants trying to get into the UK are now using very sophisticated techniques to get into vehicles.

"They seem to able to open the seals of doors and replace them without trace."

He added:

"Lorry drivers are doing all the necessary checks but when they stop off - often at motorway services in Oxfordshire as it is often the first stop - they find whole families in their vehicles.

"And the drivers are liable to pay £2,000 per migrant found in their trucks - it's a huge worry for them."