A Boston man has been charged with assaulting a bus driver and causing a crash that left 16 people injured Monday evening, officials said.
Matthew Young, 24, of Boston faces charges of wrongful interference in the operation of a vehicle carrying passengers for hire for a felony, assault and battery on a bus driver, and assault and battery resulting in serious bodily injury. Young is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Tuesday in Quincy District Court. The crash took place at around 7:15 p.m. Monday on a Brockton Area Transit bus headed to Brockton from Ashmont Station in Dorchester, Randolph Police Chief William Pace and Randolph Fire Chief Richard Donovan said in a statement.