KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — The investigation continues into what may have caused a man in a Pontiac to come flying across the median at a high rate of speed and slam into the front of a Metro Transit bus.
No names have been released, but Kalamazoo Public Safety says that both drivers are in serious condition and continue to undergo emergency surgeries at Bronson Methodist Hospital as doctors address their multiple injuries.
The family of the bus driver, a 20-year veteran of the transportation service, says doctors had to amputate part of her leg in the hours after the crash.
There are reports that the registered owner of the car has a history of drunk driving arrests and they are running blood tests to determine if alcohol was involved in this crash as well.
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KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — A head-on crash between a Metro Transit bus and a car at Oakland Drive and South Street in Kalamazoo has sent a half-dozen people to the hospital.
The two drivers were transported in critical condition after they were extricated from the wreckage.
It happened around 7:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Public Safety says a car slammed into the bus at high speed, collapsing in the front of the public transportation vehicle and pinning the driver of the bus in her seat.
First arriving officers also found the driver of the car to be unresponsive and trapped in the wreckage.
Four of the six passengers on board were taken to Bronson Methodist Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. At last word, both drivers were still in surgery.
Witnesses say the car came out of nowhere, racing across the grassy island and slamming into the front of the bus. Police will be checking to see if drugs or alcohol were a factor.
The car ended up parked inside the front of the bus.
Traffic was rerouted around the crash scene for better than four hours.
