Eleven people were taken to the hospital after a Sound Transit Express bus crashed into a barrier outside a building in downtown Seattle Saturday evening.
into a barrier outside a building in downtown Seattle Saturday evening. One of the passengers was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Seattle Police Department spokesperson Eric Muñoz said the bus driver initially told responding officers the brakes failed and they swerved into the barrier. Seattle Fire Department spokesperson Kaila Lafferty told KOMO News crews at the scene the bus was traveling down Fifth Avenue and struck a building before crashing into the barrier.Muñoz told KOMO News 15 people on the bus, not including the driver, were injured in the crash.
The crash blocked all lanes of Fifth Avenue between James Street and South Washington Street for several hours. All lanes reopened to traffic around 11:35 p.m., according to the Seattle Department of Transportation.
Bus Building Crash Fire Department Transportation 5Th Ave & Terrace Street Southbound Lanes
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