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T bus driver charged for striking meter maid after $75 ticket flap
MBTA driver Lataria Milton glares from the front of a bus after an accident in Kenmore Square this morning.
Transit Police have arrested the bus driver involved in this morning’s ticket-rage smashup in Kenmore Square and charged her with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and operating to endanger.
Lataria Milton, 34, a 10-year veteran of the T, will be arraigned tomorrow morning in Roxbury District Court, said authority spokesman Joe Pesaturo.
Milton hit a meter maid and three other cars after she was slapped with a $75 ticket for parking illegally in the heart of Kenmore Square this morning, authorities said.
The veteran city parking enforcement supervisor who remains hospitalized this afternoon, told her boss, “Tommy, if the bus didn’t hit the vehicle first, I’d be dead,” Boston Transportation Department Commissioner Thomas J. Tinlin told the Herald.
“All because she was doing her job,” Tinlin said. “She has a neck brace on. She’s in pain. It does not look like this was an accident. It looks like it was a deliberate act. The other lives this (bus) driver put at stake is staggering.”
Tinlin said the supervisor, a 22-year “stellar employee” he declined to identify by name, was struck after pulling alongside the bus at a red light at the crossroads of Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street under the famous Citgo sign. He said she stepped out of her department minivan to affix a parking ticket to the bus’ windshield that the driver had refused to accept in hand, when the bus surged forward.
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T bus driver charged for striking meter maid after $75 ticket flap
MBTA driver Lataria Milton glares from the front of a bus after an accident in Kenmore Square this morning.
Transit Police have arrested the bus driver involved in this morning’s ticket-rage smashup in Kenmore Square and charged her with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and operating to endanger.
Lataria Milton, 34, a 10-year veteran of the T, will be arraigned tomorrow morning in Roxbury District Court, said authority spokesman Joe Pesaturo.
Milton hit a meter maid and three other cars after she was slapped with a $75 ticket for parking illegally in the heart of Kenmore Square this morning, authorities said.
The veteran city parking enforcement supervisor who remains hospitalized this afternoon, told her boss, “Tommy, if the bus didn’t hit the vehicle first, I’d be dead,” Boston Transportation Department Commissioner Thomas J. Tinlin told the Herald.
“All because she was doing her job,” Tinlin said. “She has a neck brace on. She’s in pain. It does not look like this was an accident. It looks like it was a deliberate act. The other lives this (bus) driver put at stake is staggering.”
Tinlin said the supervisor, a 22-year “stellar employee” he declined to identify by name, was struck after pulling alongside the bus at a red light at the crossroads of Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street under the famous Citgo sign. He said she stepped out of her department minivan to affix a parking ticket to the bus’ windshield that the driver had refused to accept in hand, when the bus surged forward.
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T bus driver charged for striking meter maid after $75 ticket flap - BostonHerald.com
