Man proposes to his girlfriend in the back of police car after he crashed his

 
Proposal: Caine Hutchings popped the question to girlfriend Emily Dukeson in the back of a police car
Alexandra Rucki22 October 2014

A man was forced to propose to his partner in a police car when his original bid backfired following a car accident.

Caine Hutchings popped the question to girlfriend Emily Dukeson as the couple were being driven away from the accident scene in a police car.

The 30-year-old, of Radstock, Somerset, had been planning to propose to Ms Dukeson by the seaside but he lost control of the car en route and struck a tree.

No passengers were injured and police were called to help recover the Citroen from a ditch, near the A39, close to Shapwick.

Mr Hutchings, 30, said: “We had to get a photo of me going down on one knee in front of the police car after we got to the pub or no one would have believed what I’d done.

“We were only in the police car a short time, but the accident had put everything in perspective so I decided that I would ask there and then because anything can change in just a moment and I didn’t want to wait any longer.”

Ms Dukeson, 27, said: “I didn’t have a clue that was going to happen. As far as I was aware we were going to Blue Anchor to take the dogs for a walk.

“In the car, Caine said ‘did you really think we were going all that way just to walk the dogs’ and pulled the box out.

“After the accident I was in shock and crying, people thought I had been crying because I was so happy that I was getting married but it was because of the accident.”

PC Nicola Rickards, who was driving the police car, said: “I said I’d drop them and the dogs at the Pipers Inn in Ashcott, he sat in the back and she was in the front.

“All of a sudden he produced the box through the middle, I’m not sure who was more excited.”

The couple are planning to get married next year.

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