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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