A FAMILY was been left shaken after youths hurled a rock through the window of a taxi they were travelling in.

The group of two adults and four children were on their way to a fundraising night at St Gregory’s Social Club, in Church Street, Farnworth, on Friday night when a rock smashed through the back passenger window – narrowly missing a four-year-old’s head.

Luckily the family escaped uninjured, however were left shaken by the incident, which happened in Bolton Road, at the junction with Pilkington Road, Kearsley, at around 7.10pm.

The rock, which was described as the size of a fist, shattered the window of the S&D Taxi’s Mercedes Vito.

The mother, from Clifton, who was in the taxi with her husband and her children aged between 14 and four, said witnesses saw a group of six teenagers in hoodies standing nearby when the incident happened.

She said: “Shards of glass covered all of us and it took a few seconds to register what had actually happened.

“It was centimetres away from hitting my son’s head and he’s been really scared since, he keeps asking if they’re going to come back and smash our windows so it’s really affected him.

“People think it’s just a bit of fun but it could have ended differently if it hit my son or even if any glass got in our eyes.”

There was no one at S&D Taxi able to comment on the incident.

Anyone with information should contact police on 101.