Metro Transit bus crashes after driver assaulted
(AP) - Two juveniles are in jail after a Metro Transit bus driver was assaulted and crashed his bus in south Minneapolis.
Metro Transit spokesman Bob Gibbons says the driver had asked a group of six juveniles on the bus to quiet down.
Gibbons says the juveniles did not comply, and one of them assaulted the driver, causing him to crash into a traffic light pole.
It happened late Thursday night in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. The bus sustained extensive damage to its front and passenger side.
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The driver was treated for a bruise to his face. There were other passengers on the bus, but no one else was hurt.
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