MTA bus collides with car in Silver Lake [Updated]

An MTA bus crashed into a car on Glendale Blvd. near the 2 Freeway in Silver Lake shortly after 6 p.m. today, police said.

According to Officer Gregory Baek of the Los Angeles Police Department, the No. 92 bus was driving northbound just before the freeway ramp when the accident occurred.

Passengers from the bus suffered minor injuries but were not sent to a hospital, said Sgt. Gregory Hoyte of the Central Traffic Division.

[Updated at 2:22 p.m. Saturday: Ten passengers from the bus where transported to nearby hospitals, one in critical condition. The rest of the injuries were non-life-threatening, said Erik Scott, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department.]

“The driver did go to the hospital and may have suffered injuries prior to the crash,” said Hoyte, adding that the driver seemed to have lost control of the bus and hit the middle divider and another object before crashing into the car.

No one in the car was injured, Hoyte said.

-- Ching-Ching Ni

Comments

[Lilia Gutierrez]

I was on the 92 bus that crashed into a car last night. it was heading southbound, not northbound when it collided and several passengers were taken to hospitals, myself included. In the ambulance with me was another passenger named Barabara who suffered a broken clavicle. I suffered trauma and fracture to my wrist, arm. My friend Pat suffered serious injury to her back and kept asking me what happened because she couldn't remember, as she lay moaning of pain on the bus.I saw other passengers bleeding from their mouths, one lady looked like she got hit in the eye. another passenger, a male nurse, who kept comforting my friend Pat, suffered a concussion.He had a huge bump on his
forehead. Alot of us suffered greatly and your article did us an injustice by down playing the severity of this accident. Can you please let the repoter know who wrote this article know all this because because he obviously was misinformed.

[Christina Mills]

I was waiting to be picked up by my father on the intersection north of the crash site. My colleagues and I had heard loud popping noises and we saw the bus speed into the center divider under the 2 freeway bridge then keep speeding underneath it. After hat we heard a couple more loud crashes. It was the most terrifying thing I'd witnessed first hand. My colleague ran over to the crash site while I waited with another colleague and her son. Unfortunately, I was picked up before I could hear the results of the crash. However, from what I saw, I found it difficult to believe that people could've gotten out of that crash as easily as this article portrays. Along with that, the bus was traveling SOUTHBOUND, not northbound.