Metro Bus Crashes Into Apartment Building

Slick streets are being blamed for a Metro bus crash late Wednesday morning.

The ATA bus ran into two buildings at Admiral Boulevard and Oak Street. A corner of one of the buildings was sheared off.

Three bus passengers and its driver were briefly trapped inside the bus.

"I grabbed (the bus driver) by her hand. She was upset. Her leg, she couldn't get it out," witness Stephanie Wynn told KMBC.

Firefighters freed the passengers and the driver. The passengers were not hurt. The driver of the bus was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

Wynn was headed to a job interview when she saw the wreck.

"It was just so loud and so sudden and scary," Wynn said. "The bus hit a slick spot, she couldn't maneuver. She ran directly into the wall."

"We heard honking for almost 30 seconds, and then we hear just the biggest crash we ever heard," said Laura Deangelis, who lives in an apartment building that was hit. "We ran downstairs and lo and behold, the corner of the building is gone."

"I heard a loud crash, and at first I thought my co-worker had dropped something or scaffolding had fallen over," construction worker Bryon Bowman said.

Bowman was part of a renovation crew in the other building hit. The plan was to reopen the building next month.

"It'll put a crimp in my completion date," Bowman said.

"Bricks and mortar. We'll fix it and we'll move on," building owner Ken Bowman said.

Authorities evacuated the apartment building as a precaution until its stability could be checked out.

"They told us to evacuate the building, that it could collapse," Deangelis said.

Both buildings were determined to be structurally sound.

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