At least eight people were hurt when an MTA bus lost control and crashed into several cars in the Bronx, according to police. <\/p>\n
The Bx 6 bus was on E 163rd Street near Cauldwell Avenue around 2 p.m. Monday when the 63-year-old driver applied the emergency brakes and lost control of the bus, police said. It went on to strike several vehicles, occupied and unoccupied, for a few blocks before eventually coming to a halt.<\/p>\n
Eight people, including the driver, were hurt with minor injuries, according to police. Some were taken to the nearby hospital, though all were expected to recover.<\/p>\n
The windshield the the bus was smashed and the front door in pieces after the crash. One of the vehicles struck was a BMW which, in turn, knocked down a pedestrian traffic light. The bus also hit an SUV, which ended up on the sidewalk with its airbags deployed.<\/p>\n
The bus came to a stop four blocks after initially losing control.<\/p>\n
It was unclear what caused the woman behind the wheel to apply the emergency brake. An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least eight people were hurt when an MTA bus lost control and crashed into several cars in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-71704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71704","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=71704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}