THREE people were taken to hospital after a piece of scaffolding smashed through the top floor windows of the double decker bus they were on.

Six passengers were sitting on the top floor of the Newport 8C bus as it travelled along Queensway on Saturday when a piece of scaffolding crashed into the left hand side of the bus.

The bus, which travels from Ringland to Newport city centre on the route, was passing by High Street on Queensway at around 2.40pm when the accident happened.

17-year-old Paige Smith, from Ringland, said she was on the upper floor of the bus with her friend, along with other passengers including a man with two young children and a teenage boy.

Miss Smith said they were near Delilah’s when the incident happened.

She said: “The other passengers were on the left but we were on the right so we didn’t get hit. There was glass everywhere.

“The children were screaming and crying”.

She said: “We were all in shock, we didn’t know what to do. The bus driver said he didn’t know what had happened or how it happened”.

Miss Smith said the bus driver continued driving to the next stop where all the passengers got off and the bus terminated its service.

A spokesperson for the Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed three people were taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital but with minor injuries and “as a precaution”.

Gwent Police were called to the scene by the ambulance service at 2.43pm.

A spokesperson for Gwent Police said: “We were called to a report of a bus which had collided with scaffolding and that some of the windows had been smashed. I think the bus had just gone too close.”

A spokesman for Newport Bus said: “We are in discussion with our insurance company about the placement of the scaffolding.”