A double decker tour bus crashed into an Apple Store construction site Frday afternoon in Union Square in San Francisco in an incident that involved multiple cars, at least one cyclist, and ended up sending a few 20 people to the hospital.
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Fire officials say power lines are down in the area.
Witnesses describe a chaotic scene after a sightseeing bus smashed into cars and construction scaffolding in the heart of San Francisco’s Union Square, leaving 20 people hurt – six of them critically.
Police have launched an investigation but the fire department official said it was not immediately known what went wrong. “It’s way too early to tell right now”, she said.
KRON4 producer Shannon Adams was on the scene at the time of the crash.
“Everybody was asking what’s going on”, said Bay Area resident Hoda Emam, who rounded a corner leading into Union Square moments after the bus struck the scaffolding, bringing it down in a twisted heap of metal and other debris. Wrecked cars were scattered up and down the street.
He said he and others tried to put up a perimeter to keep tourists and others away from the live electrical lines until authorities arrived. “I had to crawl out the door”. He had to be rescued from the smoking wreckage and suffered chest and back injuries but was expected to recover, Canga said. “We survived. That’s the way I look at it”.
San Francisco General Hospital spokesman Brent Andrew says four adults remain in critical condition and two adults are in serious condition.
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Robin O’Connor, a spokeswoman with St. Francis Hospital, says a patient hospitalized there is in stable condition. Fifteen people were hospitalized.
