Hawco v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

The plaintiff was a victim of criminal conduct by third persons at the defendant’s Sullivan Station. The plaintiff, a paying bus passenger, arrived at the station at approximately 4:42 a.m. in order to take a train to Dorchester. The plaintiff was left off on the lower level of the station. As the bus driver pulled away from where he left the plaintiff, the driver saw someone “ducked down” behind the collector’s booth in the station. The plaintiff was less than ten feet away but the driver did not warn the plaintiff that there might be a burglary in progress inside the station. The driver did…