Report: Bus Driver's Claim for Assault Denied Over Failure to Retreat

A Virginia bus driver whose assault by a passenger was recorded by surveillance cameras is fighting for workers’ compensation benefits after the transit authority’s carrier denied his claim on the grounds that he missed opportunities to run away from his attacker, according to a report by the CBS affiliate in Richmond. Wayne Harvell was a bus driver for the government-owned Greater Richmond Transit Co. In October 2021, he called a dispatcher to say a passenger just threatened to “blow my head off” after he asked the passenger to wear a mask. He said he could stop in f...