THE recent snow has caused havoc to many people, and a Tavistock doctor was no exception when his car got stuck in a snow drift writes Sam Hughes.

Dr Patrick Drennan, who works part time at the Stannary Surgery, was returning home to Sheepstor near Yelverton, when his car got caught in a snow drift.

Dr Drennan said: 'I made it into the Tavistock surgery, but I was the only one of four doctors to make it by car — one walked and the other two worked from home.

'I made it home in the late afternoon with the milk and sugar run for the snowed in Sheepstor folk.'

As he was delivering the supplies, the wind picked up and caused a drift in the snow.

'My wife phoned me to say that the wind was picking up, so I delivered the supplies and had a cup of tea and then thought I had better park outside the village so I could get out in the morning.

'Thirty minutes later, when I tried to take the car back out of the village to park it overnight, I got stuck in the snow drift that had appeared as soon as the wind picked up.'

Dr Drennan, with the help of Roy Radmore, a Sheepstor farmer, struggled to get the car free without success.

He said: 'It was horrible.

'After an hour and a half of trying to get the car out in blizzard conditions, we had to abandon it.'

It was not until mid-morning the following day that they managed to dig the car out.

'Roy dug out the road into the village after digging the car out. If he hadn't done it then no-one would have been able to get out.

'The pile of snow he moved must have been 10 or 12 feet high.'