A woman in a wheelchair has been arrested after allegedly punching a bus driver in the face Tuesday afternoon in East Vancouver
Transit Police said the driver was lowering his wheelchair ramp at Hastings Street and Gore Avenue to let a woman on when he saw her acting aggressively and changed his mind.
Surveillance footage from the area shows the ramp retracting as the woman leaps out of her chair toward the driver.
“She jumped onto the bus and punched him in the face,” Drennan said. “He grabbed her to try and restrain her and she tried to bite him.”
The woman managed to leave the scene, but police found a suspect hours later at the Granville SkyTrain Station.
She was taken to St. Paul’s Hospital for a psychological evaluation.
Tuesday’s assault follows dozens of other attacks on transit operators reported this year alone.
In March, a driver’s nose was broken during a vicious, unprovoked attack in Surrey. Earlier that month, a female driver was beaten and clumps of her hair were yanked out in Vancouver.
