A Whatcom Transportation Authority bus jumped a curb Wednesday morning at Cordata Station, causing several minor injuries, destroying a passenger enclosure and damaging part of the station, officials said.
WTA spokeswoman Maureen McCarthy said officials are still investigating what happened and why. Photos from a witness, Richard Jongema, show that the bus apparently drove onto the sidewalk, slammed into an overhang and crashed through a glass and metal enclosure for waiting passengers.
Three people went to the hospital with minor injuries – two in an ambulance and one with WTA staff in a WTA vehicle, officials said. The bus was labeled Route 331 headed downtown from the Cordata Station near Whatcom Community College.