{"id":75639,"date":"2025-12-19T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75639\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:31:07","slug":"bronx-bus-crash-into-elevated-subway-track-support-injures-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75639\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx bus crash into elevated subway track support injures 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people were treated for minor injuries Thursday night after <a href=\"https:\/\/bustime.mta.info\/m\/?q=Bx4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Bronx bus<\/a> smashed into a support column for an elevated subway line.<\/p>\n<p>Bus No. 5566 was operating on the Bx4 line and traveling east on Westchester Ave. when police say the 36-year-old MTA driver lost control of the bus shortly after 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The bus subsequently smacked into a support pillar for the elevated tracks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/maps\/subway-line-maps\/6-line\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the No. 6 train<\/a> near Castle Hill Rd.<\/p>\n<p>The driver as well as the five adult passengers on the bus at the time of the crash were all taken to a nearby hospital and treated for minor injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no structural damage to the column, and service on the elevated No. 6 line was unaffected, police added.<\/p>\n<p>The bus is based out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/04\/27\/sewage-leak-at-bronx-mta-bus-depot-may-be-getting-into-groundwater-records\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Gun Hill Depot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crash comes three days after a Bronx bus out of the West Farms Depot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/15\/frightening-scene-unfolds-on-bronx-mta-bus-bx6-driver-loses-control-slams-into-cars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost control after an apparent mechanical failure<\/a>, striking multiple cars before ultimately coming to a stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were treated for minor injuries Thursday night after a Bronx bus smashed into a support column&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,129,131,130,608],"class_list":["post-75639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75639","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=75639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}