‘Right place at the right time’: UTA bus operator saves woman from dog attack

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“She was just trying to help get a couple dogs out of the street and get them out of danger — was able to do that, when they turned on her,” said UTA police Chief Dalan Taylor.

In this screenshot from a Utah Transit Authority board meeting, Nick Pappas, a UTA bus operator, hugs Marissa Bowen on March 22, 2023. Pappas saved Bowen from a dog attack on March 14, 2023.A Utah Transit Authority bus operator was honored last week after he saved a woman from a dog attack while working his route in Kearns.

Pappas pulled the bus over and jumped into action, yelling at the dogs to get them away from the woman and ushering her inside the bus, security footage shows. “They got me really good,” Bowen said in the footage after Pappas was able to get back to the driver’s seat. She later told him that the dogs were almost hit by a car, and she had originally gotten out of her own car to help the animals.

“These dogs didn’t give up at that point,” said Bill Humphreys, a UTA operations supervisor, during a UTA board meeting last week. “Nick was doing everything he could to keep her calm until assistance comes, and of course the dogs were still there when police and other assistance arrived.”

 

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