TTC driver OK after downtown assault
Posted March 7, 2013 2:34 pm.
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A TTC driver was luckily unhurt after he was assaulted on a downtown streetcar on Thursday afternoon.
Toronto police pulled a man off the King streetcar near Jarvis Street around 2:20 p.m.
The 504 car was temporarily delayed for the investigation but has since resumed.
The Toronto Transit Commission said that on average, two TTC employees are assaulted every day. The assaults range from punching, slapping and spitting, to threats of physical harm or death.