Dramatic video footage shows the digger repeatedly ramming into the entrance of the hotel in Liverpool. Onlookers watched in horror as the bizarre scene unfolded. And shocking pictures show the scale of the damage to the newly-built Travelodge.
Ceiling fixer Samuel White said: "The handover was today, everything completed, we'd put the last tile in, cleaned up and made sure everything was perfect.
"Then some idiot in a mini digger decided to drive through the middle of the building.”
Mr White added the carnage, which started shortly before 3pm, went on for "a good 20 or 30 minutes" before the driver abandoned the vehicle and fled.
He said: "There were loads of workers outside all gobsmacked, jaws to the floor wondering what's going on.
A digger driver smashed into the reception of a brand new Travelodge (Image: PA)
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