National Express coach travelling to London has windscreen smashed by giant snowballs
A pair of girls caused £3,500 worth of damage to a National Express coach and endangered the safety of all onboard when they dropped two giant snowballs off the top of a motorway overpass bride, smashing the windscreen of the oncoming coach.
The National Express coach was en route to its final destination of London, travelling east bound along the M4 just passed Burnham, when the incident occurred at the end of last month. 57 passengers were onboard at the time, more than half of which were Swiss school children. The driver of the coach said all of his passengers were “considerably upset” by the act of mindless vandalism which could have put their lives at risk.
The driver of the coach, David Ebbs, said the two large snowballs smashed through the windscreen, showering himself and the passengers seated near the front, with glass, snow and ice. The driver described how the backs of his knuckles were covered in cuts were the shards of glass had struck him. David Ebbs warned that the situation could have been more serious had one of the snowballs, which he described as being a like the base of a snowman, had hit him as he would have forced him to lose control of the vehicle.
Despite the frightening situation, coach driver Mr Ebbs continued onto his final destination of London. The bus was immediately taken out of service and needed repairs costing more than £3,500 to fix the damaged windscreen.
The police attended the area where the snowball had been thrown but the culprits had already fled the scene.