PHILADELPHIA — Route 5 SEPTA bus driver Chris DeShields interrupted what appeared to be a Fishtown carjacking last week on a late-night run by using his 40-foot bus to box in and scare off the would-be robbers.
He was driving north on Frankford Avenue about 10:40 p.m., carrying five passengers, said Chris Valentin, chief bus operations officer for the agency, citing a report on the episode.
A daylong rain had stopped and few were outside. Looking to his left, DeShields said, he saw three men who looked to be in their 20s surrounding a young woman they’d forced out of a car. One snatched the keys.
