A tearful young girl was refused permission to board the last bus home after the driver refused to open the doors due to 'health and safety reasons'.
The 16-year-old girl desperately pleaded with the driver to let her travel on the service from Beverley bus station to Dunswell, East Yorkshire, on Sunday, November 7, after visiting her friends.
Her pleas fell on deaf ears as the driver sounded his horn to get her to move out of the way.
A police officer, who witnessed the standoff while attending another incident at the station, eventually came over to intervene and offered the teenager a lift home.
Video footage, filmed by the young girl, shows her standing in front of the East Yorkshire bus service.
The girl says: 'can you let me on the bus?' before the driver beeps his horn.
'I need to get home', she adds. 'Why? Just open the door.'
The driver beeps his horn a few more times but the girl remains in front of the bus. At one point, she zooms in on the driver who turns his head away and carries on beeping the horn.
The girl can be heard starting to cry when she says: 'Just open the door. Why?'
A tearful young girl was refused permission to board the last bus home from Beverley bus station, East Yorkshire, on Sunday night after the driver refused to open the doors due to 'health and safety reasons'
A police officer, who witnessed the standoff while attending another incident at the station, eventually came over to intervene and offered the teenager a lift home
A moment later, a female police officer is seen walking towards the front of the bus and asks the teenage girl what is happening.
'He won't let me on the bus', says the teary young girl.
The police officer asks her where she is going back to and she responds: 'Dunswell, but he won't let me on the bus.'
Asked why not, she says she does not know, adding: 'I just missed it by a second so I ran up and he won't let me on.'
The police officer then walks round to the side window to question the bus driver, who says: 'I'm not allowed to open the doors, I'm not allowed to.'
When asked why, he says: 'Because it's health and safety, I'm not allowed.
'She is an adult as far as I'm concerned and I am late.'
The girl tells the police officer she is 15, before she is offered a lift home by the PC.
She tells the driver: 'I think there's nothing around you, she could have got on the bus.'
To which the driver responds: 'Just as your job is to follow instructions, so is mine.
'I'm sorry. Sorry.'
