Pictured: The bus-surfing teens risking their lives for kicks

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The three boys, aged 13 or 14, were trying out a terrifying new 'surfing' craze. But with just one slip they could have fallen underneath the wheels.

The scene was captured by a shocked driver, who was following the bus in his car.

Terrifying: Boys risk their lives clinging to the back of a moving bus

The 39-year-old said: 'They were laughing - but if one had fallen, they would have been under my wheels.'

Bus company Tyrer in Bolton, Greater Manchester, considers the problem so serious it has threatened to withdraw services if children continue to 'surf'.

Tyrer spokesman Gary Hawthorne said: 'Kids put themselves at risk and also the driver and passengers.'

In April ten-year-old Jordan Lee Widdall-Hughes died after falling off the back of a lorry in Newport, South Wales.

At his inquest the coroner warned: 'Even though a sense of adventure is a part of growing up - parents should stress to their children that jumping on moving vehicles is unacceptable, dangerous and potentially fatal.'