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Unite calls for new laws on transport worker assaults after bus driver dies

THE risk of assault has become an “intolerable occupational hazard for bus drivers daily,” Unite said today as Keith Rollinson was named as the driver who died following an assault in the Scottish town of Elgin.

The union called for legislation to be enacted that would make it a specific offence to assault, threaten or abuse transport workers while at work as it expressed its condolences to the 58-year-old Unite member’s family.

A 15-year-old boy charged in connection with the incident on Friday was due to appear at Elgin Sheriff Court today.

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