Another MTA Bus Driver Attacked by Passenger
The second MTA bus driver to come under attack in four days was stabbed while on the job in Inglewood on Tuesday.
The female driver, whose name was not released, was on a break at the corner of La Brea Avenue and Kelso Street, when a passenger boarded the bus about 1 a.m. and stabbed her in the arm and the thigh, said Sgt. R. McKoy of the Transit Services Bureau. The victim was treated at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital and released.
Last Saturday, an MTA driver was sexually assaulted when a suspect boarded the bus with a knife and told the other passengers to leave. Police said the suspect then hijacked the bus and crashed it into a storefront on West 8th Street before escaping on foot. That MTA driver was treated at a local hospital and released.
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