The Willing and Able Foundation bus was struck by several objects thrown from a car displaying P-plates late last week.

Nobody was injured, but the windscreen was badly damaged and the front of the bus was dented.

Bus driver Peter Fallon said the attack happened on his way back to base, after he dropped the charity’s last assisted employee home on Thursday.

“A silver car, which I think was a Holden Commodore, with a red P-plate on the back was approaching, and I saw a guy on the passenger side with his hand out the window,” Mr Fallon said.

“As he got close he lobbed some objects out over the top of the car which landed on the front windscreen.”

The incident occurred near Bangalay Dr, heading towards Ocean Dr.

“It was quite a shock. I pulled up down the bottom at Lake Rd, just near the roundabout, to see if anyone else behind me would pull over,” Mr Fallon said.

He alerted the police about the attack soon after.

The charity’s general manager Karol O’Brien said the incident was “disgraceful”.

“Somebody really could have been hurt. If it had gone right through, if it had been heavier, it could have hit him, rolled the bus,” Ms O’Brien said.

But she said the community had rallied around the charity, and one person already had donated $100 for a new windscreen.

The Willing and Able bus has a long history in Port Macquarie.

It used to be owned by Putting Wheels Under Kids, an organisation that provided transport to disabled children in Port Macquarie.

Willing and Able bought the bus in 2009 to transport its supported employees to and from work each day.