‘Spitting’DAILY bus driver draws suit

A Brooklyn woman who was spat on by an MTA bus driver over the weekend plans to sue the agency over the nasty attack.

Sapphire Phillip, 31, said she boarded a B25 bus in downtown Brooklyn with her two young children around 5 p.m. on Saturday when she struggled to close her stroller.

Phillip said the driver grew irate over her difficulties. He ordered all of the passengers off the bus at Fulton St. and Ashland Place in the middle of the route, Phillip said.

As she tried to make her way off the bus, she claims, they exchanged words and the driver spat on her.

“At some point I’m trying to get off the bus and he’s blocking the doorway,” Phillip told the Daily News. “I can’t get off the back because the door is locked. I’m looking at him at the front and I’m wondering how I’m going to get past him with my kids.”

Phillip said the transit worker’s loogie hit her on her way out the door — but the driver didn’t stop there.

Video shared online shows the driver rushing off the bus after Phillip got off and spitting at her a second time — hitting her in the face before running back to the bus.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Shams Tarek said the driver was immediately removed from duty after the incident.

Phillip’s lawyer, Marcel Florestal, said he’s filing a notice of claim against the MTA on Friday with plans to sue the agency.

“This is not about money,” said Florestal, who claimed the driver has a record of mistreating bus riders. “This is about justice for this young lady.”

The MTA would not comment further on the pending litigation.