Early Saturday horrified transit supervisors listened in as a N. Van bus driver was beaten. Coast Mountain Bus Company’s Derek Zabel said a driver with 5 years of experience was doing the 228 Lynn Valley or the 240 Vancouver, his usual route on the intersection of 15th and Grand Boulevard around 1 A.M.
The Emergency alarm went off and Transit cops and RCMP were arriving at the scene. The found the driver suffering from a serious head wound. He was taken to hospital and then released shortly after he was treated. He will be expected to make a full recovery.
RCMP announced that two 17 year olds were arrested and then released into their parent’s custody. They will appear in court on a later date.
Seeing or hearing about a bus driver being beaten by two teenagers or even anyone is just brutal and makes me feel sick. They were just doing their job and not doing anything wrong and they suddenly get beaten because they don’t want to pay their fare or don’t want to listen to the operator of the bus.
That’s not fair to the bus driver because he’s getting beaten and going to the hospital for no reason at all. All because he asked the kids where their fare was or he refused to let them on. It doesn’t matter weather they were intoxicated or not. That’s just not right. And that’s not what North Vancouver is represented as.
I’m happy that the two teenagers didn’t get away. They deserved what they got because they got themselves into it.
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