A bus driver was knocked unconscious in an unprovoked attack after a night out in Nottingham. Shelley was punched in the head by one of a group of young men whilst walking down Mansfield Road in the early hours of Saturday, March 18.
The 43-year-old bus driver, who wished to withhold her surname, was on the way to her home in the Arboretum after celebrating St Patrick's Day with friends. "Three guys were walking in the same direction as me, I remember talking to one and another one turned round and smacked me in the face," she recalled.
"I fell to the floor and passed out for a little while. I was covered in blood and my nose was to one side, I don't remember getting to the hospital."
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She said she did not get a look at the assailant and was just having "normal chit chat" with another of the men before it happened, adding that the friends of the attacker were the ones who called 999. Nottinghamshire Police said they are investigating the "nasty" attack, which took place near the junction with Bluecoat Street at around 4.15am.
Shelley's nose was broken and her eye socket fractured by the assault. "My face just looks a mess and I've got a chipped tooth as well," she said. "I've got a pocket of blood behind my right eyeball so I keep losing vision in that eye.
"I'm suffering from anxiety and depression anyway so it's made it worse, plus I can't go to work looking like this. There's cameras all over the place on Mansfield Road so I'm hoping they picked the group up. They were about student age, they weren't that old."
PC Lee Lane, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “This was a nasty and unprovoked attack that left a woman needing hospital treatment. This kind of violence is utterly inexcusable and we are working hard to track down the person or people responsible.
“To this end we would like to speak to any witnesses who were in the aera at the time, and particularly to drivers with dashcams who may have driven past the scene. Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting incident 142 of 18 March 2023.”
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