Villagers at a Remembrance Sunday service were left “horrified” after two Brownies were hit by a car as the driver ignored road closures.  

The incident happened at about 11am when the driver of a white Nissan refused to stop at a manned barrier marking road closures for the event at the First World War memorial in Halvergate. 

The driver proclaimed "I'm more concerned with the living than I am with the dead" before forcing her way into the sombre service. 

Witnesses claimed she drove at the crowd until they moved and clipped two members of the Freethorpe Brownies as she ploughed through. 

It happened just moments before the scheduled two-minute silence. 

As villagers heard the sound of a bugle playing the Last Post, the Nissan then "roared off" at speed with villagers shouting "shame" as the car left. 

Councillor Charles Reader, who organised the event, said: "I'm disgusted by it all. I've been organising this for the past 10 years and it's always a problem dealing with someone who can't respect just two minutes of silence.” 

The roads - Marsh Road at Sandhole Corner and The Street as far as its junctions with Church Avenue and Bakers Road - were closed for just 30 minutes between 10.40am and 11.15am. 

Clerk of the Halvergate Parish Council, Philip Stone, added: "The driver just kept pushing until she got through. She forced her way through the Brownie pack. 

"It has horrified the community. People died for this."