NEW YORK — A crash involving a double-decker tour bus and another bus in Manhattan on Thursday evening sent 18 people to hospitals for treatment, fire and EMS officials said.
Reports of a major vehicle crash came in just after 7 p.m., Deputy Chief Kevin Murphy with the New York Fire Department’s Division 1 Unit said at a media briefing. He said emergency personnel found what he described as a serious accident, complicated by the fact that one vehicle was a double-decker bus.
New York EMS Division 1 Deputy Chief Paul Hopper said many of those injured have cuts, bruises, scrapes, along with suspected fractures and head and neck injuries.
"None have any life-threatening injury,” Hopper said.
About 63 other passengers had requested evaluations by a doctor who was at the scene, Hopper said.
Hopper and Murphy said they couldn't speculate about what led up to the crash.
"I heard the lady next to me scream, so I looked up and I saw this bus barreling towards us," Ishrak Jahan, a passenger on one bus, told CBS News New York. "I just saw glass everywhere for a second. It was honestly like I was in a movie ... I saw blood. I immediately called 911."
