A man who jumped in front of his partner’s six-year-old daughter to protect her after a lorry crashed through barriers and was left dangerously hanging over an underpass outside a Penparcau school said the pair were “lucky to be alive”.

Tomos Lloyd, 28, was walking with young Millie Thomas, a pupil at Ysgol Llwyn yr Eos, underneath the bridge outside the gates of Ysgol Llwyn yr Eos at around 3.23pm on Monday when the crash happened.

Mr Lloyd told the Cambrian News he heard a “massive screeching noise” before “loads of glass hit the ground in front of me”.

“My main concern was Millie,” Mr Lloyd said.

“I had to pull her back well away from it and I stood in front to protect her and then I had to step back because I could have been killed.

“We both could have been seriously hurt, or worse.

“There was loads of debris hitting the floor in front of me. It was less than five feet away in front of us.”

Millie and Mr Lloyd were left shaken but uninjured by the incident.

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