Police: RIPTA rider fell over, was not struck by bus
Witness says man was quite intoxicated
Barrington police responded to the RIPTA park and ride lot on County Road near the Barrington Congregational Church at about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6 for a pedestrian who had been struck by a …
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Police: RIPTA rider fell over, was not struck by bus
Witness says man was quite intoxicated
Barrington police responded to the RIPTA park and ride lot on County Road near the Barrington Congregational Church at about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6 for a pedestrian who had been struck by a bus.
When officers arrived they discovered that the pedestrian had not actually been struck by the bus.
A witness told police that the man involved — a 49-year-old Middletown resident — appeared to be quite intoxicated while riding the bus. When the RIPTA bus stopped in Barrington, the man exited the bus and began to urinate.
Then the bus began to pull away again, at which point the Middletown man tried to grab the door of the bus and fell over. When police arrived, the man was sitting in what appeared to be a puddle of his own urine.
