Imagine you climb aboard a charter bus from New York City to Washington D.C. late one night, doze off, and wake up to absolute pandemonium. One passenger is screaming at the driver. Another is on the phone with the police. You ask around and realize that the driver has announced that he won’t be taking any of you to D.C.
No, this wasn’t the Colorado school bus driver who made all 40 students get off at the wrong stop, in the snow. But the two operators might as well be related.
The bus in question was a regular “BestBus” route from Penn Station in NY to Union Station and Dupont Circle in D.C. It should have been a 228-mile journey that took about four hours. But the bus pulled into a rest stop to swap drivers. Then the second driver blew right past the Washington D.C. exit.
A passenger uploaded live updates on the chaotic bus ride
A passenger began to write reports on the wild ride on social media at 9 p.m.: “Everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place…The new driver is telling everyone that they’re the ones on the wrong bus?? He’s refusing to talk to anyone while he’s driving and is now just driving really fast.”…