Mum traumatised as her babies 'flung to the floor' and hurt after bus smashed into building in horror crash

A terrified mother says her son is 'having nightmares' after being left covered in bruises from a bus crash. The 26-year-old mother's two children were on the double-decker Stagecoach bus that crashed in Westhoughton on Friday, causing extensive wreckage.

One person was taken to hospital after the bus ploughed into a gym in School Street at around 6.40pm on June 10. Pictures from the scene revealed the damaged caused to the building, while footage on social media shows the bus speeding by a line of traffic before crashing into a car at a junction and then ploughing into the building.

Mum Shanice Birtles, who lives in Westhoughton, told the Manchester Evening News that she was among those who received a frightening call telling her that her two children, aged just two-years and four-months old, were on the bus at the time of the smash.

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The two little ones, Alfie and Ava, were on the bus back to their home with their aunt and grandmother at the time of the crash. "We're all shaken up, my two-year-old Alfie keeps having nightmares, he has bruises all over him," said Shanice.

"I got this terrifying call and was just told that 'the bus had crashed with my kids on it and that I needed to get down there now'. I didn't know what had happened so I got in a taxi straight away.

"I got out of the taxi and ran for my life, a stranger had hold of my daughter and Alfie was with his aunt and grandma. He'd fallen right down the bus and was on the floor before he was picked up by someone.

"He had to be checked over by the ambulance crews. There were other people there with more serious injuries, but I'm taking him to the doctor on