Three City Buses Involved In Accidents At Brooklyn Intersection

At least 14 people, including a bus driver, were injured Wednesday morning when two city buses collided in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

Police say a B-44 bus was about to go through the intersection of Empire Boulevard and New York Avenue around 6:30 a.m. when it clipped another B-44 bus from behind. The first bus then veered across the intersection and knocked over a traffic light and a small tree.

Ten patients were taken to Kings County Hospital and four were taken to Brookdale Hospital. Five people are said to be in serious, but stable condition. The remaining passengers suffered just minor injuries.

The driver was pinned behind the wheel.

"The rescue units on the scene from fire rescue and police emergency services used a tool to get him out and other power tools to remove him,” said EMS Deputy Chief Howard Sickles.

EMS officials are not sure what caused the accident.

A few hours later, at around 10 a.m., a third bus – a B-43 – rear-ended a car, knocking it straight into the same intersection. The driver of the car was taken to Kings County Hospital as a precaution.

"I stopped at the light, for the red light, and I got rear-ended, right in front of this accident," said the driver.

Workers are on the scene trying to restore the knocked down traffic light at an intersection some say is notoriously dangerous.

"I don't know why, but for the past few years, this place, this intersection has a lot of accidents," said Robert Francis, a local gas station attendant. "Well for the past month, two or three accidents."

New York City Transit is investigating both accidents.

Source-http://www.ny1.com