#Bus driver uppercut drivers#

#Bus driver uppercut drivers#

General Manager Joe Calabrese also said the installation of protective shields for the drivers is being considered following the Hughes incident and several similar assaults on drivers. Later, the RTA board voted to install video surveillance equipment in 230 buses, and to upgrade current camera and DVR monitoring systems on 56 buses and 40 Red Line rail cars for $2 million. Hughes was suspended and eventually fired. Lane was also charged with disorderly conduct and faces a hearing in Shaker Heights Municipal Court on May 2. The incident ended when Hughes struck the woman in the jaw with an uppercut. Lane appears to move toward Hughes while he was driving the bus and witnesses said she spat on him. Hughes asked Lane, 25, to pay her fare and she began arguing with him. The confrontation between Hughes and Lane became an Internet sensation after numerous people on board the bus used their cell phones to record the incident. Hughes, 59, of Cleveland, faces a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Sentencing will take place following a pre-sentence investigation. Lane had become irate over being asked to pay a fare. Montgomery found Artis Hughes guilty after Hughes entered a plea of no contest to the assault on Shi Dea Lane on Sept. SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio - An RTA bus driver Tuesday was found guilty of assault by a Shaker Heights Municipal Court judge for assaulting a woman who was shouting and spitting at him. Nix, Sr., president/business agent for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 268, talk about Hughes being fired by the Regional Transit Authority in Cleveland on Nov.

RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, right, and William H.