A school bus crashed into a Crown Heights apartment building Thursday morning, damaging its entrance and forcing people in seven apartments to find somewhere else to stay.<\/p>\n
The crash happened shortly after 7:20 a.m. at 869 Eastern Parkway, near Albany Avenue.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video shows the bus leaving the roadway, hitting a tree and crashing into the four-story building. The impact could be heard throughout the property.<\/p>\n
“I was by the window. I hear, ‘Boom,'” said Agatha Baptiste, who has lived in the building for 64 years. “I looked out by the window. I see a bus by the gate.”<\/p>\n
Police said the 65-year-old driver was traveling west on Eastern Parkway when the bus jumped the curb and hit the building. No children or other passengers were on board.<\/p>\n
The driver refused medical attention, and no one else was hurt.<\/p>\n
Witness Isaac Hagen said he had just returned from synagogue when he saw the bus coming toward the building.<\/p>\n
“I jumped out of the house because I saw it’s coming into the house,” Hagen said. “I didn’t want to get killed. Thank God it was empty \u2014 no children. Could be a big tragedy.”<\/p>\n
A tow truck later pulled the bus from the building. Video shows chunks of concrete falling to the ground as the bus was removed.<\/p>\n
The city Department of Buildings issued a partial vacate order covering several apartments.<\/p>\n
Tenant Gia said residents were given only a few minutes to collect what they needed.<\/p>\n
“They gave us 10 minutes to pack some stuff,” she said. “We have to go pack and find somewhere else to stay for the night.”<\/p>\n
According to the Department of Buildings, the American Red Cross registered 20 adults and six children for emergency relocation help.<\/p>\n
The department also ordered the building’s owner to put up a tight-board fence around the damaged area to protect the public.<\/p>\n
Police confirmed to News 12 that the bus driver is not under arrest and, at this time, no charges have been filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A school bus crashed into a Crown Heights apartment building Thursday morning, damaging its entrance and forcing people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-350038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}