PORT ANGELES — A Clallam Transit bus driver and an 80-year-old passenger she rescued from an attack by another rider have been treated and released from Olympic Medical Center, hospital officials said late Saturday.
Port Angeles police said the driver, identified by her first name of Joy, intervened Saturday when Riley Edge White, 59, attacked an acquaintance, Angeline Olsen.
The driver stopped the bus in the 1600 block of West 16th Street and pulled White off Olsen at about 1:47 p.m., police said.
White then attacked the driver, hitting and choking her, police Cpl. David Dombrowski said.
Other passengers helped get Olsen off the bus, and the driver managed to distract her assailant long enough to get his hands off her neck and jump out the door, Dombrowski said
White got into the driver’s seat and tried to start the bus, but the driver had shut off the battery, locking White inside the bus.
White remained in the Clallam County jail Sunday for investigation of second-degree assault and harassment.