AN ANGRY father has spoken of his horror after a rock was flung at his car window, narrowly missing his two-year-old daughter's face.

Luke Adams was driving with his daughter Ivy towards Hankridge on the Toneway dual carriageway in Taunton on Sunday afternoon when a rock was throw towards the back window of his car.

Police have now launched an investigation into the criminal damage which is said to have happened around 3pm on November 27.

Mr Adams said: "It sounded like an explosion - like a bomb had gone off.

"I pulled over straight away and Ivy was just covered in glass. I brushed it off her without caring if I was getting cut.

"The noise was horrendous. I didn't know what had happened. Your window shattering is the last thing you expect to happen when you're driving along at 40mph on a dual carriageway."

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Luckily, Ivy was not hurt and came away from the car with just a scratch on her chin.

"I got her out of the car and she was just on the side of the road silent, I don't think she knew what was going on," he said.

"When I told my partner Siobhan, she said everything was okay because Ivy was okay.

"Ivy is fine now, like nothing ever happened. But it could have been so much worse, and if it had been, I would have never been able to forgive myself for something that wasn't even within my control."

Mr Adams said that someone driving in the car behind him pulled over to help, and explained that he had seen someone stood on the grass hedge, threw the rock, and jumped down straight after.

Police are now appealing for witnesses and an investigation into criminal damage is taking place.

A spokesman from Avon and Somerset Police said: "We were called to Toneway around 3.15pm on Sunday.

"There were reports a rock had been thrown at a car with a young child in the back.

"We have now launched an investigation into the criminal damage."

Anyone with any information is asked to call 101 quoting reference number 5216 263 739.