Mum's fury as baby girl hurt on bus after Stagecoach driver 'braked suddenly at traffic lights'

A mum says her baby daughter was injured when a bus driver braked suddenly after speeding up to get through traffic lights on amber.

Shauni Pinion, 31, was a passenger when she said the bus suddenly braked and her child's buggy 'toppled over sideways' onto the floor before she was thrown on top of the 12-month-old, Alyssa, who was strapped in securely at the time. The buggy's brakes were also on, she said.

Alyssa, who has only just turned one, was later taken to see a doctor but luckily suffered only a bump to her head. But Shauni, who was also with her four-year-old son at the time, suffers from chronic pain disorder fibromyalga and says her symptoms have worsened as a result of the incident, with her GP prescribing further medication.

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She shared an image of Alyssa's buggy with a snapped metal frame and she claims they were left 'dumped at the side of the road' in the aftermath of the incident - and the driver didn't ask her whether they needed any first aid.

Shauni says the incident happened when the Stagecoach driver braked suddenly on April 8.

They had been to a family party in Stockport and were returning home on the 330 Stagecoach service between Stockport and Ashton when she says the incident happened at around 4.30pm on King Street in Dukinfield, near its junction with Astley Street.

Shauni, from Dukinfield, said: "Stagecoach are stonewalling me. They will not tell me whether there is any disciplinary action. I have witnesses who say the driver was trying to run the amber light. He realised that he couldn't make it then slammed on hard.

"My daughter, or anyone else on the bus, could have been seriously injured. It's just not on."

Shauni