Cynthia Bell, whose husband runs a coach tour firm, was waiting alone on the bus in Blackpool, when two women and a man climbed on board.
The mother-of-two, from County Durham, was left terrified and protected her face with her arms when the man plunged the pen deep into her right arm, narrowly missing her vital arteries.
Retired administration worker Mrs Bell was left in agony on the coach as the thugs fled from the scene. She was given gas and air as paramedics prised the pen from her arm - leaving her with a nasty wound and severe bruising.
She said: ‘I decided to go with (my husband) Norman on the trip to Blackpool and we’d pulled over while waiting for passengers. We had the engine running so we could keep the air conditioning on because it was a really hot day.
‘Then I saw these three people walking on and I honestly thought they were going to steal the bus - it was absolutely frightening. The man came up to me so I lifted my arms up to protect myself but he stabbed me with the pen. It went right through my skin and narrowly missed my vital arteries. If it had been an inch further up or down who knows what would have happened?’
The thugs ran off empty-handed as Mrs Bell was left in agony on the coach for 15 minutes while waiting for paramedics to arrive. Mr Bell, 69, has been running Bell Brothers coaches for 42 years - and his wife only went on the trip to enjoy a day out.
‘I just hope the police manage to track these thugs down before they do anything else.’
In a later interview, Mrs Bell said from her home in Spennymoor: ‘The picture is horrible but it could have been worse. It was lucky that it missed all the veins and didn't do any internal damage.
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