Car/Bus Accident On 9D/Wolcott and Beekman Street During 8am Morning Traffic
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According to a passenger on the 8:04am G Line (the Beacon Free Loop Bus) that was headed north in the turning lane of 9D (aka North Avenue and Wolcott Avenue) to turn left down Beekman Street to the train station, was hit twice by a gray 2-door Honda car headed in the opposite direction (south on 9D, with the Police Station on the car’s right side), at around 8:15am on Monday morning, the passenger told A Little Beacon Blog, and supplied all pictures published here.
The Honda that hit the bus, which spun around upon collision.
According to the passenger, the car was driving “a lot faster than the bus,” which was preparing to turn left down Beekman Street. From what the passenger could tell, the car veered into the lane that the bus was in, hitting the front left corner of the bus, and then the back left tire of the bus. Upon colliding, the car spun around, and came to rest horizontally in the middle of the road.
“Just before the bus driver could turn onto Beekman from 9D,” the passenger told ALBB, “a grey car veered into our lane and hit the bus. There were 3 passengers on the bus and the driver and we’re all physically fine. The driver of the vehicle seems like he’s okay too.”
The passenger told ALBB that Beacon Police, Fire, and EMS responded within 3 minutes. “After the accident, police and paramedics came onto the bus to check if any of us were injured.”
The bus was towed away soon after, and in the pictures, was at an angle. The passenger does not know if the car pushed the bus into that angle, or if the driver had turned the bus away from the oncoming vehicle.
