Briefly in the news

A car and bus were involved in a small accident at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday when the driver of the car opened his car door at Marguerite Avenue and

Pacific Coast Highway in Corona Del Mar.

While the bus and car drivers were exchanging information, they got

into “a physical altercation,” said Newport Beach Police Sgt. Steve

Shulman.

“The operator of the car hauled off and punched our bus driver’s

lights out,” said Orange County Transportation Authority spokesman George

Urch. “We don’t like people messing with our bus drivers. They are

important to us. But the bus driver is OK, except for a little hurt

pride.”

Newport Beach police cited the car driver for opening the door into

the bus.

Later, deputy sheriffs assigned to the Orange County Transit Authority

brought the car driver to jail and booked him on suspicion of assaulting

the bus driver.

Striking a bus driver is a felony offense.