Cops: Woman pulled from SEPTA bus says she wasn't abducted

A woman who was seen being pulled into a vehicle from a SEPTA bus has told police she was not abducted, as investigators continue to probe the bizarre incident on Roosevelt Boulevard.

Police said the apparent overnight abduction occurred after a man in a Pontiac followed a SEPTA bus on Roosevelt Boulevard, smashed a bus window and was seen punching and dragging a woman who got off the vehicle into car shortly before 2 a.m. Friday.

Police said later Friday morning that the woman went to Northeast Detectives and told the officers that she was not abducted.

Authorities are still working to determine what occurred.

The incident unfolded after the bus was being followed by a gray or silver Pontiac on Roosevelt Boulevard near Adams Avenue.

That car tried to get the bus to pull over, the SEPTA driver told police, and a man in the Pontiac got out of his car and approached the bus while it was stopped at a red light at Langdon Street.

The man shouted at the woman to get out of the bus and punched the window where she was sitting, cracking the glass before the bus took off again, police said.

The woman, who boarded the bus at the Frankford Transportation Center, then got out of the bus at a stop on the 4200 block of Roosevelt Boulevard.

The man met her at the front door, pulled her off the bus, punched her twice in the head and forced her into his car, police said.

Police said they believed the two knew each other.

The vehicle fled south on the boulevard.

SEPTA said Philadelphia police were handling the investigation.

Police were viewing surveillance video from the bus' cameras to determine what happened.