A 14-year-old boy has been charged with what is alleged to be a serious assault of a bus driver in West Auckland last night.<\/p>\n
At about 7pm on Wednesday, police responded to reports a person had been injured on a bus on Colwill Rd in Massey.<\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Ryan Bunting said a suspect fled on foot after officers arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n
The bus driver was taken to hospital in a moderate condition, he said.<\/p>\n
“This was an understandably frightening ordeal for the victim and we are continuing to support them.”<\/p>\n
The incident is the latest in a string of incidents on Auckland buses. A passenger allegedly attacked a bus driver with a fire extinguisher<\/a> and days later there was an “unprovoked attack” that injured a passenger<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police said in relation to the latest incident that a youth was arrested this morning.<\/p>\n He appeared in the Wait\u0101kere Youth Court today charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, assault, and possession of an offence weapon.<\/p>\n “People have a right to be safe going about their business, without having to be subjected to any type of violence,” Bunting said.<\/p>\n “Any violent behaviour will not be accepted and those engaging in it will be held to account.”<\/p>\n The teenager will reappear in Wait\u0101kere Youth Court on February 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy has been charged with what is alleged to be a serious assault of a bus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-257184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}