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After an angry passenger allegedly punched a New York bus driver, the driver reportedly responded by stabbing the man in the leg and head.

Early in the afternoon on December 13, a man was riding on an MTA bus in Queens, when he approached the driver and said he realized he was on the wrong bus. He made a request to be dropped off at a spot on the side of the road, but it was not a marked bus stop. It was reported that the driver was trying to find a safe place to allow the man to deboard, but the 33-year-old rider was allegedly unsatisfied and threatened to physically harm him. The passenger then reportedly struck the driver in the face and started spitting on him.

When the 58-year-old bus driver got up to confront him, the man allegedly punched him multiple times. The operator had a sharp object believed to be a knife, and he reportedly stabbed the passenger in his head and his leg.

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A substitute bus driver for the Douglas County School District allegedly tried to control the children on his vessel by slamming on the brakes, leaving some of them severely traumatized.

On March 1, a 61-year-old school bus driver from Castle Rock was substituting for the regular driver on a bus from Castle Rock Elementary. The riders ranged in age from kindergarten to 6th grade.

It was reported that the man felt like the children were acting up. He was reportedly having difficulty getting them to quiet down, behave, and stay in their seats.

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Two school bus drivers at a central West Virginia high school were involved in a situation where one of them was arrested for driving with students on board while allegedly highly intoxicated, and both were fired. 

At the conclusion of the school day on March 8, one of the school bus drivers had their vehicle filled with a total of 50 students from Gauley River Elementary and Richwood High School that he was driving home. 

According to reports, the driver spoke to a second driver before departing on his route, and he allegedly told him he felt like he was too intoxicated to drive. The other driver reportedly did not try to prevent him from leaving with the bus full of kids. 

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A middle school bus driver suspected of drinking and driving was taken into custody after he got into an accident while transporting children. 

On December 13, one of the bus drivers from Woodland Community School District 50 in Lake County, Illinois, was driving with seven school children in the vehicle.  

It was reported that when the driver turned a corner, he lost control of the bus and went over the curb. The bus also struck a brick mailbox. 

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When police pulled over an Arizona school bus driver with high school students on board, they accused the man of driving under the influence.

52-year-old Bryan Diel drives a school bus for the Chandler Unified School District since June 2014.

On the afternoon of August 26, Diel was reportedly driving with nine high school students from Hamilton High School on the bus.

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