<B>WORLD EXCLUSIVE
By Hugh Dunnett
Crime Correspondent

Cops are investigating extraordinary claims Norwich owner Delia Smith has a contract out on the founder and editor of the Suffolk Gazette, after he was involved in a terrifying 'unexplained' road smash while on holiday in California.</b>

Simon Young was sitting with his wife in a parking lot in Oakhurst, CA when a huge Winnebago came careering out of control down the main hill from the mountains, veered off the road and smashed into his car and another parked just few yards away.

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/winnebago-honda-e1447260993859.jpg"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/winnebago-honda-e1447260993859.jpg" alt="winnebago-honda" width="300" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2048" /></a></center><center><i>Smash: Winnebago and destroyed Honda in storefront window</center></i><br><br>

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/fireman-mustang-e1447261098791.jpg"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/fireman-mustang-e1447261098791.jpg" alt="fireman-mustang" width="300" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2049" /></a></center><center><i>BANG: A fireman tries to move the Youngs' write-off Mustang</center></i><br><br>

<Center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/winnebago-bays-e1447261213183.jpg"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/winnebago-bays-e1447261213183.jpg" alt="winnebago-bays" width="300" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2050" /></a></center><center><i>WALLOP: The stricken Winnebago straddles the parking bays where the two cars had been parked</center></i><br><br>

Remarkably neither of the holidaying Suffolk residents were seriously injured, although both had extensive bruising. Their rental Mustang convertible was a write-off.

California Highway Patrol officers at the scene confirmed the Winnebago's brakes had failed, leaving the huge five-ton motor home with no choice but to smash into cars at 25mph to try to stop before it gathered even more deadly speed.

But the Suffolk Gazette understands there may be a more sinister explanation to the accident, with county police being tipped off that Delia Smith had told her enforcers to "see to" Mr Young because the Suffolk Gazette has poked so much fun at her in recent months.

A Suffolk Police insider said: "If you want to teach someone a lesson, what better way than to tamper with the brakes of some innocent guy's Winnebago so that he careers into your intended victim. There is no suggestion anyone in the Winnebago new about the plot.

"Ms Smith's outrageous scheme might well have worked had Mr Young's airbags not deployed, and had the other car not been parked next to his, taking a lot of the impact.

"Mr Young is now being advised on security measures for the rest of his trip. We believe he is driving through the remote Californian landscape and don't want any Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner style mishaps to befall him.

He is being advised to check that apparent black tunnel entrances ahead are indeed tunnels and not black pain in a cliff, and also to ensure that road signs have not been tampered with, sending him over the edge of a cliff."

A friend of Delia Smith said claims she had a contract on Young were "ridiculous". "She does not read the Suffolk Gazette, and has never even heard of Mr Young."

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Speaking from his hideaway location by the beach in Santa Barbara today, Mr Young expressed surprise that Delia Smith might have been to blame for the crash.

"There would be much easier ways to kill me," explained Mr Young, 48. "Such as cutting off my supply of Adnams beer."

The smash in Oakhurst was <a href="http://www.sierrastar.com/2015/11/09/75930/failed-rv-brakes-cause-multiple.html" target="_blank">reported in the local Sierra Star newspaper</a>, although their correspondent has curiously not followed up the Delia Smith angle. 

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