Video footage showed at least one bus on its side and the top of it partially split.
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Jesy Garcia, of Newark, was on a Clifton-bound bus on her way to her job at a local factory when her ride was T-boned by a bus driven by veteran driver Joseph Barthelus about 6 a.m. Friday.
Jennifer, one of Starbucks employees, told me she was remembered of her crash auto, the day after Hurricane Sandy.
“We have some preliminary (sic) kind of data that says we suspect one of the bus drivers may have gone through a red light”, he said. “Me and a couple of other guys start trying to pull people out of the bus, break the windows and pull pieces of the chairs and stuff out of the bus to get to the people”.
Officials said the driver’s name would not be released until the family had been properly notified.
The No. 13 bus had 17 passengers aboard, said NJ Transit Police Chief Chris Trucillo. He was scheduled to drive the No. 59 route from Newark to Westfield, officials said.
The force of Friday’s crash left the westbound bus embedded in the side of the northbound bus, which had come to rest on a central reservation tipped at a 30-degree angle.
“We’re praying for all of those in the hospital”, Mayor Ras Baraka said.
Broad St. was closed between Market St. and Rector St.in both ways. One person is still critical and another is in serious condition, Diggs said.
Petrain and the co-worker ran out with ice water, rags and a first-aid kit.
“We were there before anybody was on the scene”, Ms Petrain said. They have denounced many passengers had “horrific” injuries, which includes head wounds.
Emergency crews respond to the scene of a accident involving two commuter buses in Newark, N.J., on Friday, Aug. 19, 2016.
The mayor says the preliminary investigation is centered on whether the 59 Line bus ran a red light at the intersection of Raymond Boulevard and Broad Street.
The intersection was the first in the state, in 2009, to feature a surveillance camera created to catch people running red lights.
A 38-year old woman was killed on Black Horse Pike in Pleasantville by an NJ Transit bus that was making a turn, PressofAtlanticCity.com said.
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The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the crash.
