Brian Phillipson was driving home along Sandbanks Road at 1pm on Saturday when the powerful kite, being used by a surfer in Poole Harbour, became tangled in his car.
The 72-year-old from Banks Road, Poole, said: "It just shot over the top of my car, landed behind me and got caught up. That was a bit of a shock in itself, but I pulled over and started to unhook it so I could get home.
"Suddenly my hand became caught up in the nylon cord and this great gale picked up. The kite pulled me off my feet and dragged me into a garden wall the other side of the pavement." Luckily the grandfather-of-one from Banks Road managed to free himself, but the nylon cord badly gashed his finger which left him with a lengthy wait at Poole Hospital and several butterfly stitches.
Seconds after freeing himself from the kite a man ran up - but not to help.
"I had a badly bleeding hand, but this man just ran up said 'I'm so sorry' and when I looked around again he was gone, off chasing his kite in the wind."
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