A BUSY Newport road was a scene of destruction after a car ploughed through a bus stop and into the car park of a guest house.

The bus stop on Chepstow Road, near the Labuan guest house was smashed to pieces, a three foot high, four metre long wall was demolished scattering bricks across the guest house car park, after a silver Peugeot 206 left the road.

The car then mowed into a red Fiesta parked in the Labuan car park, triggering a domino effect which damaged a further three cars, before ending up on its roof.

The teenage girl who had been driving and all four passengers escaped unhurt.

Pat Bees, 67 who owns the B&B with her husband John, 72, said the noise of the crash shortly after 3am on Sunday (July 1), was like "a bomb" going off.

Mrs Bees, whose own car was badly damaged, said: "As I opened the front door and saw the scene I was just shocked. I know it sounds a silly thing to say but all I could think of when I saw it was that a bomb had gone off.

"Our main concern was that everyone had got out the car ok, which thank God they had."

Mrs Bees said bricks from their wall, which had wrought railings on the top, covered "every square inch" of their 40ft by 24ft car park.

The bricks had added further dents to the cars, of which three of the four, including Mrs Bees’ had had their windscreens smashed.

The red Fiesta which took the main brunt was owned by guest Rosalie Moloney, who was making her way back to Ireland from Cambridge. Miss Moloney had to travel with the AA to Fishguard, and get special dispensation from Stena Lines ferries to take her damaged car onboard, before being picked up the AA in Ireland and driven back to Cork.

The Bees are looking to sell the home and business and Mrs Bees, joked: "It is not going to be great to look at for people coming round."

A spokeswoman for Gwent police, said: "The driver and four passengers were taken to the Royal Gwent hospital as a precaution.

"Inquiries were made at the scene and no arrests were made."