A collision of two buses, one of which was carrying tourists, on Thursday evening, in Manhattan, New York, injured more than eighty people, 18 of whom were taken to hospital, but their injuries were not serious, according to the Fire Department.
New York City Fire Department deputy chief Kevin Murphy said the accident occurred at around 19:00 (23:00 GMT) on First Avenue near Gramercy Park.
Footage posted by the department on Twitter showed a double-decker, open-top tour bus colliding with the back of another bus operated by the city.
Two buses full of passengers
Paul Hooper, deputy chief of the fire department’s emergency medical service, said the buses appeared to be overcrowded. “We transferred 18 patients” to the hospital, he added, noting that none of them are in a life-threatening situation.
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He added that the field medical staff treated 63 other passengers of the two buses.
He pointed out that “a large number of injuries do not exceed cuts, bruises, scratches, and suspected fractures and wounds to the head and neck as well.”
And the firefighters had to use ropes and ladders to get the passengers out of the bus carrying tourists because one of its doors was damaged, according to Murphy, who did not reveal the cause of the accident.
The nationalities of the wounded were not immediately known.
