Female bus driver assaulted in an unprovoked attack in Vancouver

Three young women have been arrested and charged with assault after an alleged unprovoked attack on a female bus driver.

At approximately 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, the three women and three young men got on a Coast Mountain bus near Broadway and Fraser Street in Vancouver without paying their fare.

Another passenger reported the youth were being noisy and were openly drinking at the back of the bus.

The female driver pulled over her bus and told the group they would have to get off the bus.

That is when the three women have allegedly attacked the driver, grabbing her hair and punching her.

The suspects ran away when confronted by other passengers. They were taken into custody shortly after.

Twenty-two-year-old Dolores Pearl Robinson from Vancouver, 20-year-old Molly Christina Robinson and another 17-year-old female were all charged with one count of assault.

Dolores Pearl Robinson is well known to police. She has 462 negative police contacts recorded.

Molly Christina Robinson is her sister and is also very well known to police with 267 negative police contacts recorded.

The 17-year-old female is well known to police as well.

All have been released from custody and will appear in court later this month.

The bus driver is currently off work suffering trauma, bruises and scratches. She has also had quantities of hair pulled out and her glasses were smashed in the struggle.

The Union told Global News the number of driver assaults in the first two months of this year is virtually the same as during the same period last year, but it appears more are physical assaults.