Incident on B.C. Transit bus has Kamloops woman searching for answers

KAMLOOPS — On Wednesday afternoon (June 28) Cassandra Strain claims her two children and a niece each with disabilities boarded a bus with their youth worker on Westsyde Rd. The four riders were heading a block south to get off at the Supersave gas station. That’s where the incident took place according to Strain.

“My step-daughter went to the front and the bus driver said ‘I don’t have time for this, you need to wait till we get downtown you can’t get off’,” Strain told CFJC Today. “My youth worker then said two of my other kids are off the bus right now and I need to get them. And he said I don’t have time for this . I have two other buses coming behind me. You’ll just have to wait. Even repeating this again and again, he wouldn’t let the youth worker off with my step-daughter.”

Strain says her children and niece have not taken the bus since and feel unsafe after Wednesday’s incident. “I didn’t know what was gonna happen. I knew my step-daughter was safe with my youth worker but I didn’t know what was going to happen to my niece and daughter because they don’t have the capacity to ride the bus alone. My heart sank.”

CFJC News reached out to BC Transit and were given the following statement. “BC Transit is aware of an alleged incident that occurred on a BC Transit bus in Kamloops on June 28……We are working with our operating partner, Transdev Canada, to investigate this matter further, including the review of CCTV footage from the bus involved.”