Police have appealed for information after an elderly woman was knocked over by children and broke her arm.

Rosalind Hill, who is in her 60s, was waiting for a bus in Chudleigh when the incident happened.

She said the youngsters should be ashamed because of the misery and distress they have caused her.

Mrs Hill is recovering from a hip replacement operation and was on her way home from the dentist when she was bowled over.

'It all happened so quickly. I was waiting to catch the bus in the Square and was standing back a bit on a wide pavement so that people could pass through easily.

'Then these two kids came charging by and knocked me to the floor. I came down on my arm against the edge of the step into an empty shop. My walking stick was on the floor and I could not get up,' she said.

Mrs Hill, who lives in Teignmouth but is staying with friend Jean Pearce, who has been looking after her in Newton Abbot, said the two did not stop. she called out and two other slightly older children went to her aid, picked her up and helped her on to the bus.

The incident occurred at about 4.05pm on Friday, April 3. The bus driver offered to call an ambulance, but though she was in pain she declined.

She caught the bus to Sherborne Road, Newton Abbot, and then another to Newton Abbot Hospital, but said that had she known the radiography department closed at 5pm she would have gone straight to Torbay.

Mrs Hill said: 'Though I arrived before 5pm there were several others waiting and it was not until between 6pm and 6.30pm that I was seen by a sister.

'She looked at my arm and said I had probably knocked it badly and to see how I felt on the Monday.'

Mrs Hill said a Velcro splint was put around it but by the time she arrived at her friend's house her arm was swelling up.

After a painful night she struggled to Torbay Hospital on a bus the next day where she was told her arm was broken and she was put into plaster.

'I thought the idea of having a new hospital in Newton Abbot was to have facilities for those living in the Teignbridge area, to save everyone having to go to Torbay.

'I know I am not the only person who is disappointed that it is only open during office hours for quite a lot of the facilities.

'If it was made clear to the public that these facilities are not available it would save the staff time as well as the patients,' said Mrs Hill.

Chudleigh police want to hear from any witnesses. The reference number is 355 of April 22.