Insane video: Unhinged male beats on bus driver, pulls him from seat while bus is motoring down street — then comes the crash



Surveillance video caught the terrifying moments when a passenger began physically attacking a bus driver — and pulling the driver from his seat — while the bus was still motoring down a busy street Saturday in Oklahoma City.

The scary scene culminated with the bus crashing into a building.

What are the details?

Oklahoma City’s Public Transportation Department released the video Wednesday showing the attack on one of its EMBARK bus drivers, KFOR-TV reported.

“The suspect asked to be let off at the intersection of Britton and Western," Oklahoma City Police Lt. Jeff Cooper told the station. "The bus driver told him he couldn’t do that."

The bus driver, following city policy, reportedly told the passenger he could let him off at the next designated stop, KFOR noted.

With that, video shows the passenger suddenly throwing punches at the driver:

Image source: X video screenshot via @tcblume

The passenger soon pulls the driver out of his seat and into the aisle — and the bus is still moving:

Image source: X video screenshot via @tcblume

As you no doubt are guessing, the bus without a driver behind the wheel is not long for its lane — and it soon veers off the road.

Video shows the bus finally crashing into a business, KFOR said.

Image source: X video screenshot via @tcblume

Here's the clip:

OKCPD arrest an Embark passenger for attacking a bus driver this past weekend, sending the bus into a building at Britton & Western. The passenger demanded to get off the bus at a railroad track, against regulations. What happened to the other passengers at 4:30/6pm @kfor pic.twitter.com/TRNazMI0rb
— Tara Blume (@tcblume) April 24, 2024

The bus driver's seat belt stayed on throughout the attack, and the station said it saved the driver from being thrown through the windshield.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Image source: YouTube screenshot

What happened next?

Police identified 23-year-old Tihron Harrison as the passenger who attacked the bus driver, and police said Harrison ran from the scene, KFOR said. But cops soon caught up to Harrison, took him to a hospital to get evaluated, and arrested him, the station said.

23-year-old Tihron Harrison: "ran from the scene but was later caught by police, taken to the hospital to get checked out, then arrested." pic.twitter.com/5ljGTOCi58
— Stridewalker (@Stridewalker1) April 25, 2024

“Obviously [the driver] had some bumps and bruises," Jason Ferbrache, director of the city's Public Transportation and Parking Department, told KFOR. "We got him to medical facilities right after, and he’s off work now but doing well."

Ferbrache added to the station that the bus driver did everything he could to follow the city’s policies while keeping people on board safe.

“When you run into a situation like that, no matter how much training you have, it’s very difficult to prepare for somebody really assaulting you while you’re operating a vehicle in motion,” Ferbrache noted to KFOR.

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Video shows passenger hitting Southwest Airlines flight attendant who lost teeth in assault



Video footage has been released showing the assault on a Southwest Airlines flight attendant last weekend by an unruly passenger, who left the attendant bloodied and reportedly missing two teeth.

The witness who took the video says both the passenger and the flight attendant deserve blame for the altercation.

What are the details?

The incident occurred Sunday morning after a flight from Sacramento, California, landed in San Diego.

It was first reported by a Transport Workers Union of America local president who raised it to Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly in a plea for better safety for airline employees amid a significant spike in passenger incidents over the past year — the vast majority of which the FAA has attributed to non-compliance with mask policies.

A spokesperson for Southwest confirmed the altercation, saying in a statement to ABC News Tuesday that "the passenger repeatedly ignored standard inflight instructions and became verbally and physically abusive upon landing."

Witness Michelle Manner pulled out her cell phone to record after the flight attendant, who has not been named, battled back and forth verbally with a row of passengers.

Manner says the whole thing stemmed from one passenger not properly wearing their mask, and that both the flight attendant and the passenger who hit her deserve blame for escalating the situation.

"Both of them, in my opinion, were wrong and it could have totally been avoided," Manner told KFMB-TV, with whom she shared the footage. "

Manner says she was only able to capture the last part of the argument between the attendant and the passengers, and claims a verbal altercation between the parties began roughly five minutes prior when the attendant pressed a passenger sitting in a window seat to pull her mask over her nose.

According to Manner, the attendant then left to report the passenger to the captain of the aircraft before returning to the confrontation.

"The frustration from the first altercation was still brewing - in all of them - including the flight attendant, no doubt, and so it just escalated very, very fast," Manner recalled. "I heard the passenger [sitting by the aisle] say three times something to the effect of, 'Get off of me. Don't lean on me.'"

Manner went on to say, "The passenger was incorrect by hitting her, but she was also, in my opinion, provoked."

Anything else?

Fox News reported that 28-year-old passenger Vyvianna Quinonez was arrested following the incident for battery causing serious bodily injury according to the San Diego Harbor Police Department.

Southwest has permanently banned Quinonez from flying with the airline, USA Today reported.

Southwest Airlines flight attendant loses two teeth in assault by passenger: union



A flight attendant for Southwest Airlines was attacked by a passenger during a flight over the weekend and lost two teeth in the assault, according to a union president.

What are the details?

Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 President Lyn Montgomery brought up the incident in a letter to Southwest CEO Gary Kelly on Monday, urging him to boost security on flights to protect workers.

According to NBC News, Montgomery wrote that "From April 8 to May 15, there were 477 passenger misconduct incidents on Southwest Airlines aircraft," arguing, ""The unprecedented number of incidents has reached an intolerable level, with passenger non-compliance events also becoming more aggressive in nature."

The union boss went on to say that one flight attendant working over the weekend was "seriously assaulted, resulting in injuries to the face and a loss of two teeth."

A Southwest spokesperson told ABC News Tuesday that the incident occurred Sunday morning on a flight from Sacramento to San Diego. Neither the passenger nor flight attendant were identified, but both are female.

"The passenger repeatedly ignored standard inflight instructions and became verbally and physically abusive upon landing," the spokesman said, adding that police took the passenger into custody upon landing.

The flight attendant was hospitalized but has been released.

Fox News reported that the Federal Aviation Administration "has been cracking down on 'unruly' passengers" of late.

On Monday, the FAA tweeted, "The FAA has proposed fines between $9K and $15K against five passengers for allegedly interfering with and, in two cases, assaulting flight attendants. We have zero tolerance for unruly or dangerous behavior. Our fines can reach up to $35K."

The FAA has proposed fines between $9K and $15K against five passengers for allegedly interfering with and, in two… https://t.co/Vvky1LTKQY

— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) 1621865267.0

NBC reported that "in a typical year, the agency sees 100 to 150 formal cases of bad passenger behavior. Since the start of this year, that number has jumped to 2,500, including about 1,900 passengers who refused to comply with the federal mask mandate, according to the FAA."