A motorist has been injured after being attacked by two young men that were passengers on a bus. The incident occurred in Massenhoven after a minor collision between a car and a bus operated by the Flemish public transport company De Lijn. When the driver of the bus and the motorist were about to fill out their road accident report forms, two passengers in their twenties that were on the bus lost their patience. They repeatedly struck the motorist.
The incident happened on the N14 trunk road near to a bus stop next to a branch of a well-known hamburger chain. The two young men lost their patience, got of the bus and physically assaulted the driver of the car. Although there was only minor damage to both the bus and the car the motorist had to be taken for treatment on the injuries he had sustained during the assault.
Els Kusters of the ZARA Local Police Service told VRT News that “The assailants were two young men in their twenties. They were taken in for questioning by the police. The police are investigating further the exact circumstances surrounding the incident.