At least 10 hurt in crash involving DDOT bus

By Tom Greenwood and Mark Hicks
The Detroit News

Detroit — At least 10 people suffered minor injuries in a crash involving a Ford Taurus and a Detroit Department of Transportation bus Wednesday morning on the city's west side.

Detroit police said the incident occurred about 9 a.m. at the intersection of Evergreen and Van Buren roads.

The Taurus ran a stop sign and collided with the bus, Officer Cassandra Lewis said. The impact forced the bus onto the front lawn of a home, clipping a tree as it careened off the road. The front end of the bus was heavily damaged.

The Taurus was spun around by the collision but stayed on the roadway. Its driver was taken to a hospital for injuries, but the extent was not known.

Leon Gollman, who lives on Evergreen, said he was sitting in his den when "I heard some crunching and it felt like it was getting closer and closer to me."

Moments later, the bus was in the yard — only feet away from the home he has lived in for two months. "When I looked out the window, I could see the bus driver holding his head," Gollman said.

About a dozen passengers left the bus, looking dazed and shaken, he said. At least half of them were taken away later for medical treatment.

The force of the crash dented a tree in an adjacent yard and knocked out a bus window, Gollman said.

Although he had heard of other accidents in the area, the collision was "unbelievable," Gollman said. "You would never imagine something like this happening."

An investigation into the crash is continuing.

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