An Auckland bus driver was attacked by another motorist while dropping off a passenger in West Auckland yesterday in an apparent road rage incident.<\/p>\n
A 34-year-old man has been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and was due to appear in the Wait\u0101kere District Court today.<\/p>\n
Acting Detective Inspector Megan Goldie, Waitemat\u0101 CIB, said the incident happened in the suburb of Te Atat\u016b shortly after 3pm yesterday.<\/p>\n
Goldie said there had been an earlier traffic incident involving the bus and a vehicle on Alderman Drive in Henderson.<\/p>\n
“The vehicle then followed the bus for several minutes as it travelled towards Roberts Road.<\/p>\n
“As the driver parked up to let a passenger off, the offender entered the bus and allegedly assaulted the driver before fleeing.”<\/p>\n
The driver suffered facial injuries and was taken to hospital, and was now recovering at home.<\/p>\n
Goldie said the car involved in the incident was a rental vehicle and a man was quickly identified and arrested in M\u0101ngere last night.<\/p>\n
“Police do not tolerate any violence on public transport, and we will continue to locate and prosecute these offenders.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland bus driver was attacked by another motorist while dropping off a passenger in West Auckland yesterday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-527036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527036","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=527036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}