Coach passenger injured by brick thrown from motorway bridge

Date published: 29 April 2014


A coach passenger was "lucky to suffer only minor injuries", police said, after a coach was hit by a brick thrown from a motorway bridge over the M66 at Heap Bridge, Heywood, near junction 2, at 7.20pm last night (Monday 28 April).

It is understood the brick broke a window on a Witchway double decker coach.

The injured passenger was taken to Fairfield Hospital in Bury with facial cuts.

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