A Maritime Bus driver escaped serious injury after he was allegedly assaulted by an intoxicated passenger at a stopover in northwestern New Brunswick.

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The attack happened at a Petro-Canada service station in Saint-Léonard late Thursday night after the driver had removed the man from the bus for vomiting on the back of another passenger.

While inside the gas station, the intoxicated man is reported to have punched the driver in the face, leaving him with bruises and broken eyeglasses.  A store clerk was also assaulted, but was not injured.

The RCMP arrested 30-year-old Kristopher Ryan Wentworth from Saint John for assault and causing a disturbance. Wentworth appeared in provincial court in Edmundston on Monday.  He pleaded guilty to the charges and will be sentenced on May 28.

This is the second assault involving a Maritime Bus driver to occur in northwestern New Brunswick in a little over a year.

In April 2013 in Perth-Andover, Donald Jaillet suffered 14 stab wounds when he was attacked by a passenger.  Twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Hickey of Moncton faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated assault in that case.

 

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