Woman struck by bus after fleeing cab
Police said a woman being driven to Rhode Island’s mental hospital was struck by a bus on Tuesday after she jumped out of a taxi and ran across the highway.
NBC 10
Published: July 7, 2009
Updated: July 7, 2009
PROVIDENCE—A woman being driven to Rhode Island’s mental hospital was struck by a bus transporting prisoners after she jumped out of a taxi and ran across the highway.
State Police Capt. James Swanberg said the woman assaulted a cab driver taking her to the Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston on Tuesday morning, causing the taxi to strike a guardrail on Interstate 95 in Providence.
The woman ran across the highway without her shirt on and police say she was struck by a bus carrying prisoners, presumably to court in Providence. The woman suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, police said.
The prisoners were placed on a second bus. Swanberg says the woman will face charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct.
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If she were in a clown suit, should they not write that as well? Are you saying we should censor the press from printing factual material? They obviously didn’t know why she was topless. Maybe she has some mental issues. Maybe she was assualted. Who knows? The fact is that she was topless. They didn’t print what size her bosom was, did they? That would be a little over the top, but they didn’t. They just wrote that she was topless. Big deal.
Did you really have to publish that she was topless - you are sensationalizing an unfortunate event! The poor women was hit by a car - that’s all that need to be said.
HUH!???
THE NEWS GETS BETTER EVERY DAY!
HMMMM HAVE TO WONDER WHAT SHE WAS UP TO PRIOR THE POOR THING!
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