A SCHOOLBOY was left fearing for the sight in one of his eyes after glass shattered in his face during an accident on a bus.

Moses Mayele, 14, has told how he sat shaking in the street with blood oozing from his injured left eye after the incident on the W13 in Woodford Green High Road.

The Trinity Catholic High School pupil said he was left covered in glass after his bag got shut in the bus's doors - which shattered when he tried to pull it free.

The youngster, who had got onto the W13 with his younger brother Joel, 12, also suffered a cut to his neck and bruising above his left eye during the accident, outside The Castle pub last Thursday morning.

Moses was hurt just yards from where another teenager, Tanika McCook, 13, was dragged along the road after becoming caught in the door of the 179 bus on her way home from Davenant Foundation School on December 7.

He said: "The door shut on my bag when I tried to get on. I asked the driver to open it but he didn't seem to listen.

"When I turned around to try and pull it out the glass broke all over me.

"It hurt really badly and I couldn't see properly out of (the eye).

"I was shaking. I thought I might not be able to see out of it again."

Moses' other brother, Emmanuel, 13 - who was not on the bus at the time - used a friend's phone to call the boys' mother, who then alerted the school.

A teacher arrived to look after Moses until an ambulance - which is thought to have been called by the bus driver - arrived to take him to Whipps Cross University Hospital where the glass was removed from his eye.

The teenager, of Foremark Close, Hainault, has to put medicated drops in his left eye three times a day, and said his vision is still a little blurry.

Moses' mum, Bernadette Tefu, 45, said she plans to make a formal complaint against the driver of the bus, who she claims put her son's safety at risk by allegedly refusing to open the doors when he asked him to.

A spokesman for CT Plus - which operates the W13 bus - said: "CT Plus confirms that an incident, involving a W13 bus, took place at approximately 9.00am (on Thursday) morning in Woodford High Road.

"This matter is currently under investigation. Unfortunately we are unable to make any further comment at this stage."