TransLink bus driver in hospital after unprovoked attack
Posted March 26, 2014 11:49 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS1130) – A TransLink bus driver is in hospital recovering from a broken nose and blurred vision after he was attacked Wednesday night in Surrey.
The driver, a 10-year-veteran was sitting in his seat when he told a passenger standing on the platform near 144th St and 72nd Ave that the bus was about to leave, says Nathan Woods with the bus drivers’ union.
“First he put the cigarette out, walked onto the coach, cold-cocked out driver right in the nose and walked away,” says Woods.
A passenger called police.
“Passengers report that the operator didn’t say or instigate anything and that the male was probably just looking for a scrap,” says Woods.
No arrests have been made.
Woods says the bus did not have security cameras.
“This bus is around 17, 18 years old and Coast Mountain Bus didn’t outfit this bus with a camera. Surrey and Richmond each have about 200 of our older coaches which are about 15 to 18 years old and those buses are not equipped with cameras. So there’s a good portion of the fleet on the south side of the Fraser without video evidence.”
