Metro Bus Collision
The Houston Chronicle Reported, Thirteen people were taken to hospitals this morning after a Metro bus collided with a minivan in Midtown and then veered into a car dealership's storage lot, crashing into possibly a dozen new BMWs and other vehicles.
The accident occurred shortly after 8 a.m. after the minivan ran a stop sign, according to witnesses.
"It was just a big old 'boom'" said Joseph Rivas, who works at a Texaco store nearby and saw the accident.
The bus was carrying 25 passengers as it headed north on San Jacinto, toward downtown, said Metro spokeswoman Raequel Roberts.
The drivers of both vehicles were among those taken to various hospitals, complaining of neck and back pain, Roberts said.
The bus smashed through a chain-link fence and struck at least a dozen new BMWs and some employees' vehicles on a storage lot for Advantage BMW.
Rivas, 50, said the minivan was westbound on Hadley when it ran a stop sign. The bus quickly swerved, he said, but it glanced off the front of the minivan and careened across the sidewalk and into the lot.
Employees at the car dealership, who did not give their names, said most of the new cars that were damaged were in the 300 and 500 series. The sticker on one car showed a price of about $75,000.
Max Stovall, a lawyer who said he was standing nearby when the accident occurred, said the noise from the impact was "tremendous."
"The bus snapped the fence like a piece of string," he said
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