A road-rage incident in Halifax has left a transit bus driver with a broken window and police looking for an angry man in a silver Pontiac Sunfire. One woman on the bus was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
It took a little longer for passengers on a Metro Transit bus in Halifax to get to work this morning. There was a collision between a car pulling out of a grocery store parking lot and the bus. The driver of the car got out and witnesses say he pounded so hard on the window that he broke it.
"He curse and swear at the bus driver and everything,” said Kenny Smith. “I saw the bus driver get out of his bus, he flagged down the police car, he told the police, and he pointed that way, that the car went that way up there".
Police say the car was just in front of the bus and slammed on the brakes, forcing the bus to do the same.
"There were about eight people on the bus, and one nineteen year old female was taken to hospital,” says HRM police spokesperson Lauren Leal. "We're looking for a silver Pontiac Sunfire, witnesses were able to provide a partial license plate number, and we do have video footage from the metro transit bus."
It could have been worse. This incident resulted in minor injuries and a broken window - last year about this time a bus driver and a passenger got into a physical struggle. There is some speculation that this latest incident may have resulted from a misunderstanding about busses having the right of way. Police say they just want the driver of the car, who they describe as “a good guy who had a bad day” to come forward.
With files from CTV’s Ron Shaw.
