BOSTON — A man in a case of road rage is accused of shooting at a shuttle bus with a BB gun in Boston.
Boston Police said the incident happened on Friday night, just outside North Station, where a passenger in another car shot at the bus driver.
The driver’s side door was pierced by the BB and the mirror cracked, but no one was injured.
Darryl Walker, the bus driver, tells Boston 25 News he’s lucky to be alive.
“Oh my god! This guy’s shooting at me,” said Walker. “If he had had a real gun, he could’ve took me out. Literally, I’d be dead and gone.”
Walker says he heard at least three shots but isn’t sure how many were fired in total. He had been driving on Beverly Street in the bus he drives for the Innovation and Design building in the Seaport.
According to Walker, he had just dropped off his passengers at North Station when he had a close call with another driver, which he says had been driving into oncoming traffic.
“I pulled up beside him and I asked him, ‘Did you not see this big bus?’ and he goes, ‘Well did you not see us?’” Walker said. “When I see him reaching I know he’s gonna come out with something, so I didn’t wait around to see what he had. I ducked and I literally hurt my back trying to get down low.”
Police say one man has since been arrested.
“People are crazy nowadays,” said Walker. “When it comes to traffic and driving out here you never know what’s gonna happen.”
Walker said the bus was a newer vehicle, but he’s just glad it was the bus that took the damage and not him.