A PASSENGER hit a bus driver in the left eye for driving too slowly.

Sales executive Teo Wee Siong, 44, was jailed one month on Thursday after he admitted to using his finger to hit Mr Goh Khoon Wah on the left eye on an SBS bus along Upper Serangoon Road last Aug 7.

Mr Goh, 55, was driving Service No 136 when Teo went up to him and said he was driving too slowly, and that drivers like him deserved to be beaten. He then used his finger to hit the driver in the left eye. He alighted at Hougang Avenue 7.

Mr Goh sought treatment at a clinic in Yishun and made a police report.

A second charge of pushing the victim's hand was taken into consideration.

Teo could have been jailed for up to one year or fined up to $1,000 or both for the offence.