More than two dozen people were hospitalized Friday afternoon after an FDNY engine and a city bus collided in the Bronx, officials said.
Firefighters from Engine 46 were responding to medical emergency about 12:15 p.m. in Mount Hope when it turned left from E. 175th St. onto Webster Ave. — right into the path of a BX41 bus. A video acquired by the Daily News shows that the fire truck — lights and sirens going — had nearly completed its turn when the bus, approaching the fire truck from the left, slammed into its back end. The bus driver was badly hurt, said Youssoufou Sawago, 44, a mechanic at a nearby garage.
“(He) had to be taken out,” Sawago said. “He was bleeding when they put him in the ambulance.” The five-member crew aboard Engine 46 and 21 people on the bus — including the driver — were all taken to area hospitals with minor injuries, officials said.