Woman References Newland Road Deaths in Road-Rage Incident with MBTA Bus Driver

A woman allegedly went off on an MBTA bus driver Thursday morning after her BMW and the bus collided at the Broadway Plaza stop in Arlington Center.

The woman told police that she was parked illegally when the bus backed into her. The bus driver said the woman pulled up and hit his parked bus.

After the collision, the bus driver said the woman came to the bus’ door, swore at him and called him an anti-gay epithet. After that, she came onto the bus, pushed him, grabbed his radio mic and began swearing over the bus-radio system, he said.

According to the police report, when an Arlington police officer arrived on scene, the woman told the officer, “That [expletive] bus driver backed into my car. And now he’s [expletive] lying about it. That’s why people in Arlington get murdered, because of people like him.”

A family of four was found dead in a Newland Road home Monday by Arlington police on a well-being check. The cause and manner of the deaths have not been released, as authorities are awaiting autopsy results.

The woman was not arrested, according to MBTA Transit Police Lot. Det. Richard Sullivan. He wrote the bus “was parked at the time of the incident” in a Friday email to Arlington Patch.

Continuing coverage of Monday's deaths on Newland Road >>