Police say the bus started picking up speed heading towards San Francisco’s Union Square and lost control before slamming into a few scaffolding at the construction site. It struck several moving vehicles on its path, as well as the bicyclist and the two pedestrians, who wound up trapped beneath the vehicle after it crashed into the scaffolding, ABC News reported.
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The tourbus allegedly hit a bicyclist on the road before colliding into pedestrians, and several other nearby vehicles.
It also knocked down several power lines used to propel the city’s iconic electric buses.
Officials say there may have been as many as 30 people aboard the bus.
Despite being hurt, the driver was conscious and was able to talk to firefighters when he was rescued from the wreckage. But she added it was too early to speculate about what caused the crash.
Police have launched an investigation but the fire department official said it was not immediately known what went wrong.
City Sightseeing San Francisco chief executive Christian Watts issued a statement by email Saturday, saying that the company is “deeply saddened” by the crash. Wrecked cars were smashed up against the bus, along its sides or in its path.
“Everybody was asking what’s going on”, said Emam, a Bay Area resident in San Francisco on personal business.
“There were still ambulances and fire trucks and paramedics with stretchers coming up”, she said.
Four people remain in critical condition a day after a double-decker tour bus crashed in a crowded and popular San Francisco neighborhood. The hospital has said very little about the nature of their injuries, but a source inside San Francisco general filled us in on a few of the details. He identified them as three men and three women between the ages of 20 and 60.
Robin O’Connor, a spokeswoman with St. Francis Hospital, says a patient hospitalized there is in stable condition.
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“I couldn’t tell who was a tourist and who was an accident person”, he said.
