ATAC offers with sequence of incidents as Rome marks European Mobility Week.
A Rome bus driver has been suspended for watching the Europa League match between Lazio and Midtjylland as he drove via town on Thursday night.
The incident occurred on board the 881 bus which travels between the historic centre and La Pisana to the west of Rome, reviews La Repubblica newspaper.
A passenger immortalised the scene – on Through Gregorio VII close to the Vatican – which confirmed the driving force with one eye on the highway and the opposite on the match, screened on his mobile phone connected to the window.
The commuter despatched the {photograph} to Rome’s municipal public transport firm ATAC with the message: “Does this appear regular to you?”
ATAC managers made speedy contact with the passenger who knowledgeable them the driving force slammed on the brakes throughout essential factors within the recreation, which Lazio misplaced 5-1 to the Danish facet.
The suspended driver now faces disciplinary motion from the corporate which discovered itself coping with a number of unlucky incidents as Rome launched its 2022 version of European Mobility Week on Friday.
Earlier within the week an ATAC driver fell asleep on the wheel and crashed an evening bus right into a bus shelter on Through Togliatti, within the jap suburbs, within the early hours of Tuesday, reviews Corriere della Sera newspaper.
There was no one injured within the crash whose aftermath was filmed in a video that went viral on social media, wherein the driving force makes an attempt to placate enraged passengers by saying: “It may occur”.
ATAC issued a press release saying it was “properly conscious” of the incident and can be investigating the dynamics.
ATAC apologised and pledged to launch an investigation into how passengers turned trapped within the station.
The nationwide protest was organised by unions in response to “the violent and repeated assaults” in opposition to public transport employees in Italy.
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