City Bus Driver

Sometimes the most important person on a bus isn't the person driving it. Sometimes it's the stranger standing outside who decides they aren't going anywhere. Kymberlee Daley There are plenty of stories about buses that go wrong. Drivers being assaulted. Passengers behaving badly. Traffic chaos. Arguments. Delays. The occasional incident that becomes tomorrow's headline and yesterday's social-media argument. And then, every so often, something happens that reminds you that buses aren't just machines carrying people around a city. They're places where strangers cross paths. And sometimes, when something goes badly wrong, one of those strangers does something extraordinary. This is one of those stories. I don't want to spend too much time on the incident itself. The details are already out there, and they make uncomfortable reading. A bus driver was attacked. A situation developed rapidly. The driver eventually managed to escape from the vehicle, while the...