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Several Injuries Reported After Collision
CINCINNATI -- It appears that none of the injuries suffered when a Metro bus crashed into a local house late Thursday afternoon are going to be life-threatening.
Only the driver was aboard the bus when it crashed into a two-family home in the 1700 block of Harrison Avenue near Tremont Street in South Fairmount at about 4:25 p.m., WLWT reported.
Cincinnati police spokesman Lt. Kurt Byrd said Thursday that the driver might have blacked out before she crashed into a telephone pole and then hit the home. At least three children were inside the home, WLWT reported. At least six people, including those three children, have been taken to local hospitals.
"She's cognizant, she's awake and she's aware," Byrd said of the bus driver. "She doesn't have any medical history that she's aware of, but she's going to need to be checked out anyway."
Eyewitness Robert Smith, who lives across the street, said in a telephone interview with WLWT that he helped get the children out of danger.
"There was so much smoke in the bus, and I told the bus driver she should get out," Smith said. "She looked like she was in shock. A little kid's hand was coming out of all this debris. He was probably under there for 10 minutes. We finally opened the emergency window and dragged him out of there."
Smith also said a little girl was crying and jumping up and down, complaining of pain in her leg. The boy he helped rescue seemed "like he was in shock," according to Smith.
"I could hear hollering inside the house, but I couldn't see in it," he said.
Byrd told WLWT that he doesn't like to use cliches, but he couldn't help it in describing Thursday's crash scene.
"Every time I think I've seen it all, you see something new, and this is pretty spectacular," he said.
No other information is available.
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Several Injuries Reported After Collision
CINCINNATI -- It appears that none of the injuries suffered when a Metro bus crashed into a local house late Thursday afternoon are going to be life-threatening.
Only the driver was aboard the bus when it crashed into a two-family home in the 1700 block of Harrison Avenue near Tremont Street in South Fairmount at about 4:25 p.m., WLWT reported.
Cincinnati police spokesman Lt. Kurt Byrd said Thursday that the driver might have blacked out before she crashed into a telephone pole and then hit the home. At least three children were inside the home, WLWT reported. At least six people, including those three children, have been taken to local hospitals.
"She's cognizant, she's awake and she's aware," Byrd said of the bus driver. "She doesn't have any medical history that she's aware of, but she's going to need to be checked out anyway."
Eyewitness Robert Smith, who lives across the street, said in a telephone interview with WLWT that he helped get the children out of danger.
"There was so much smoke in the bus, and I told the bus driver she should get out," Smith said. "She looked like she was in shock. A little kid's hand was coming out of all this debris. He was probably under there for 10 minutes. We finally opened the emergency window and dragged him out of there."
Smith also said a little girl was crying and jumping up and down, complaining of pain in her leg. The boy he helped rescue seemed "like he was in shock," according to Smith.
"I could hear hollering inside the house, but I couldn't see in it," he said.
Byrd told WLWT that he doesn't like to use cliches, but he couldn't help it in describing Thursday's crash scene.
"Every time I think I've seen it all, you see something new, and this is pretty spectacular," he said.
No other information is available.
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