NO bus driver stabbed in stroller dispute

A 17-year-old mother with a toddler in tow stabbed a Regional Transit Authority bus driver in the chest Tuesday after refusing to comply with a request to fold up her baby stroller, RTA and New Orleans police officials said.

Authorities said the trouble began when Darrion Scott, 17, pushed a stroller carrying her 2 1/2-year-old child onto a bus shortly before 1 p.m. at the Gretna terminal.
Darrion Scott

Bus driver Hanella Johnson, 41, told authorities she informed Scott of the standard bus policy: Riders must fold baby strollers and keep them out of the aisle. As a driver for 18 years, Johnson can recite the rule from memory.

Scott refused to fold the stroller, though she paid the $1.25 fare, authorities said.

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