New York: 18 hurt as double-decker bus, city bus collide in Manhattan
A collision between a double-decker bus and a city bus in New York on Thursday left at least 18 people injured, media reports said.
The injured people were shifted to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
First responders received notice of the crash on the borough’s east side shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday, FDNY Deputy Chief Kevin Murphy told CNN.
“The first two units arrived to find two buses involved in what appeared to be a serious accident, complicated by the fact that one of them was a double-decker bus,” Murphy said at a news conference at the scene.
Ropes and ladders were used to assist passengers with getting off the buses, officials said.
“Any time you have two buses involved you have a significant number of patients that likely need to be treated,” Murphy told CNN. “So seeing that quantity of people right away, I think the units did a very good job getting them off the bus quickly and taken to the appropriate resources.”
The cause of the crash is still not known.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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