A packed Bronx MTA bus slammed into several vehicles on Monday afternoon \u2014 injuring at least 7 people and sending passengers into a full-blown panic.<\/p>\n
Chaotic video obtained by The Post showed several passengers screaming inside the moving BX6 bus that cops said crashed into multiple cars while traveling west on East 163rd Street around 2 p.m. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the f\u2014k,\u201d one passenger yelled during the pandemonium. \u201cOpen the freaking door!\u201d another pleaded, according to the clip. <\/p>\n
A packed Bronx MTA bus crashed into several vehicles on Monday afternoon. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
At one point, as the bus appeared to come to a stop, two passengers were seen hopping out of a window to escape.<\/p>\n
The 63-year-old bus driver and six adult passengers suffered minor injuries and were taken to local hospitals, cops said.<\/p>\n
One of the vehicles the bus careened into on Monday. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
A chaotic video obtained by The Post showed several panicked passengers screaming inside the moving bus. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
Photos of the aftermath of the crash captured the shattered windshield and glass doors of the MTA bus. <\/p>\n
Multiple damaged vehicles were also left strewn on the street, including a completely crushed blue car with its airbags deployed.<\/p>\n
Witness Wilson Albert told The Post he saw the bus operator smash into six to seven vehicles and try \u201cto keep going,\u201d before being stopped by an unmarked police car.<\/p>\n
His attention was first brought to the crash by the noise of the impact. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou could hear the impact from all of them. It was a lot, bam, bam, bam. Every car she hit made noise.\u201d<\/p>\n
A witness described seeing the bus operator smash into six to seven vehicles and try \u201cto keep going,\u201d before being stopped by an unmarked police car. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looked like a movie. I thought they were shooting a movie,\u201d he recalled. <\/p>\n
Another witness, Mike, saw at least one person being carried out on a stretcher after he hurried outside to find the source of a loud \u201cboom\u201d sound. <\/p>\n
\u201cI seen the car on the sidewalk and I seen him putting the guy on the stretcher. I said, damn, I thought he caught a stroke or something behind the wheel, so that wasn\u2019t what it was,\u201d Mike said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was obviously injured, injured bad,\u201d the witness recalled. <\/p>\n
The MTA confirmed the incident and said the bus has been taken out of service following the crash.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing, authorities said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A packed Bronx MTA bus slammed into several vehicles on Monday afternoon \u2014 injuring at least 7 people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,1209,254,57,141,9,24,63,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-71865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-buses","tag-car-crashes","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71865","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=71865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}