Two New Jersey Transit buses collided Friday in a horrific t-bone crash in busy downtown Newark, killing one person and injuring 18 others, some of them critically, officials said.
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Dramatic photos from the scene appeared to show one of the buses on its side and crushed almost in half.
Another woman said she believed one of the buses had ran a red light. All of them and the driver were taken to hospitals in varying conditions.
Irma Garcia and her husband William Mendez become emotional as they talk about her Irma’s mother, Jesy Garcia, who lost her life from the injuries she sustained in the crash of two NJ Transit buses in Newark on August 19. However, officials said, both the Essex County prosecutor’s office and Newark Police Department would continue to investigate what led to the fatal wreck.
WABC reports that the New Jersey Transit buses ran into each other likely at high speed around 6:00 a.m. this morning at North Broad Street and Raymond Boulevard. Officials said the investigation will involve reviewing footage from surveillance cameras that may have captured the crash on video, as well as inspecting the buses’ mechanical systems and interviewing victims and witnesses. The other driver and 17 passengers were injured.
“We were there before anybody was on the scene”, Ms Petrain said. One of the vehicles was broken almost in half, and a bus driver was pronounced dead at the scene. So far, Broad Street and Raymond Blvd in Newark are closed, so all area buses are detouring to University Avenue.
Rescue workers used ladders to get passengers out of the bus, carefully lifting stretchers thorough broken windows.
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Two people have been killed and 17 others are injured after two buses collided in New Jersey.
