Bus smashes through guardrail and hangs over elevated roadway

A New York City autobus crashed done a obstruction partition and hung implicit an overpass successful a terrifying infinitesimal during the greeting commute.

The beforehand of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) BxM1 bus and astatine slightest 1 of its wheels dangled from an elevated roadworthy aft the crash successful the Bronx conscionable earlier 9am connected Friday.

It happened astatine West Kappock Street and Independence Avenue adjacent to Henry Hudson Parkway, implicit a typically engaged sidewalk.

The driver, connected the occupation for astir a decade, was not capable to maneuver astir a parked car connected Henry Hudson Parkway and postulation was backing up, MTA national officials told PIX11 News.

Another MTA operator with 37 years of acquisition who was stuck 2 vehicles down the troubled autobus got retired connected ft and tried to assist. As the 2nd operator tried to crook the bus, it slid and struck the guardrail, according to national representatives.

‘He tried to assistance her out, and things turned retired a small worse,’ Yonkers Depot TWU Local 100 Chairman Marcos Soler told CBS News.

‘Between the writer and the ditch, the autobus conscionable slid, done nary responsibility of his own, and arsenic helium was applying the brakes, it ended up making interaction with the wall. Twenty tons of autobus downhill connected a curb. Accidents happen.’

At the clip were nary riders connected committee the bus, which was heading to Midtown Manhattan.

The autobus operator was rescued by firefighters and was not injured.

Two tow trucks yet pulled the autobus backmost onto harmless ground. MTA Express buses are 45 feet long.

Helicopter footage showed firefighters closing disconnected the thoroughfare beneath the overpass owed to fallen debris.

The clang happened conscionable minutes earlier a yellow schoolhouse autobus crashed and flipped connected its side successful the Dongan Hills vicinity of different borough of the city, Staten Island, and 13 were injured including 11 children. A Lexus operator allegedly failed to travel to a halt a ta halt motion astatine an intersection and caused the accident. All 13 victims were transported to a adjacent infirmary and were successful unchangeable condition.

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