A BUS driver called police to eject a woman passenger from his vehicle after she opened a skylight during the current heatwave.
Sales adviser, Carol-Anne Blake, of Yetminster Road, Canford Heath, says when she boarded the number 106 Wilts & Dorset bus at 9.21am last Sunday all the windows were shut.
When she begged the driver to open the skylight he refused despite the record-breaking temperatures.
Ms Blake catches the bus from Sherborne Crescent in Canford Heath every Sunday to travel to her job as sales adviser at Beales department store in Bournemouth.
Ms Blake said: "I was wearing a light outfit but was perspiring heavily.
"When I asked him to open the skylight he just said 'no'.
"I wasn't just thinking about me, I was thinking about everyone else."
As the bus continued its journey Ms Blake kept asking the driver to open the skylight.
She added: "I opened it myself and then he said he wanted me off the bus.
"I refused and he said if I wouldn't then he would get the police and have me removed."
Ms Blake says the driver then pulled into a lay-by in Ashley Road and they waited for the police to arrive.
She said: "Two police came and spoke to him. It seemed out of all proportion.
"He told them it was a safety hazard. The police said ultimately the bus driver had refused to drive the bus with me on it and I would have to get off."
Ms Blake managed to catch another bus following the first.
She said: "That bus was completely different. He had all the windows open and the skylight.
"Given it was the hottest day of the year I didn't think it was an unreasonable thing to ask."
Kevin Dolan, administrative officer for Wilts & Dorset Co. Ltd, said that the driver kept the hatch shut because it was defective.
He added: "It was not because of a difference of opinion as to whether the hatch be opened or shut.
"At the end of the day the driver is in control of the vehicle.
"That Sunday was a very hot day but only reached its peak at 3pm. There were four windows that could be opened providing ventilation on the bus."
A spokesman for Dorset Police confirmed that officers had been sent to the scene to "assist in the removal of a passenger".
He added: "It appeared to have been a misunderstanding between both parties."
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