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Police: Man grabbed wheel of T bus from driver and tried to ram oncoming traffic
By adamg on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 9:55am
UPDATE: Lyons was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bail in Brighton District Court, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Police charge an Everett man who had trouble keeping his pants up had no problems wresting control of an 86 bus and trying to crash it - but was foiled by a fast-thinking rookie driver who managed to apply the emergency brake.
MBTA Transit Police say Donald Lyons, 52, reached across the 24-year-old driver - on the job for just 2 1/2 months - around 7:30 last night and grabbed the bus's steering wheel as it approached Commonwealth Avenue on Chestnut Hill Avenue:
The suspect reached over her body with both hands and took hold of the steering wheel and turned it left, causing it to swerve into the oncoming lane. [The driver] immediately applied the emergency brake and was able to successfully brake the bus before colliding with any oncoming vehicles or parked cars. [The driver] states at some point while the suspect was leaning over he made physical contact with her body, injuring her back and neck.
Police say Lyons fled the bus after it stopped. They immediately began searching the area for a beefy 50-something white guy with pants that kept falling down, exposing his rear. Police say a passenger who decided to walk home after the incident rather than wait for a police ride, ran back to the scene a few minutes later to report seeing him in front of 1360 Comm. Ave.
Lyons was arrested on charges of wrongful interference with operation of an MBTA vehicle and assault and battery on a public employee.
Innocent, etc.
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Comments
Handsome devil.
Handsome devil.
Nice work all around on the 86
I will add only that a guy with these looks would be conspicuous in that part of Brighton. Even if the passenger hadn't spotted him (btw, nice work) I think that the cops from D-14, and maybe even the T police, probably would have been quick to pick this guy out amongst the many coeds.
Nice work on the driver's part too - Chestnut Hill Ave. is not very wide in that stretch (I'm presuming it was between South St. and Comm. Ave), so she must have been pretty quick on the brake.
Come on. While there are a
Come on. While there are a lot of young folks in Allston-Brighton it's not like middle aged folks aren't seen around here.
Called it as I've seen it
No baiting necessary, thanks.
Of course there are lots of different kinds of people that live around that part of Brighton. There are also some trees, dogs, cats and the occasional water-dwelling mammal (I saw a beaver-like creature swimming in the reservoir last fall).
Look, I'm just calling it as I've seen it over the past 15 years that I have lived within 2.5 miles of there (there meaning the area of the incident, not Brighton Center, not Oak Square, not North Allston that particular area and its immediate environs). While lots of different people are out and about at any given time (after all, it is a city) the people that you see the greatest number of, and particularly at that time of day, are the undergrad and grad students and those recently removed from those statuses. All I was saying is that this guy would be conspicuous (particularly with his pants falling down) amongst that crowd. Mine was not a commentary on anything else.
Nit pick on the address
Are you sure about 1360 Comm Ave? That's quite a distance from the intesection of Comm and Chestnut Hill.
Still, glad that the passanger was able to alert the police!
I had wondered that too.
I had wondered that too. That's a really long way for someone to "run back to the scene"
That's what the police report says
But it also has an extra digit in the bus route number, so it could be a typo. I'm guessing this guy was in no condition to run very far, what with his pants constantly falling down on him.
How about 1630?
I'm betting they reversed digits, and it was actually 1630 Commonwealth Avenue.
I hope the guy who hijacked that bus ends up behind bars,
where he belongs, for awhile. it would serve him right. First, I hope he gets tried and convicted of attempted murder, or at least endangering people. This guy's clearly a felon and should be treated as such.
is that bail for real
I think 10K is a little too low for that alleged crime.