Three people have died after a charter bus owned by a company with a record of safety problems barrelled through an intersection, slammed into another bus before crashing over a footpath and into a building in New York City.
The wreck, which was captured by a security camera, destroyed the facade of a restaurant and started a small fire. The video appeared to show the charter bus racing through the intersection without applying its brakes.
"The tour bus was flying," Mike Ramos, a witnesses to the crash, told the Daily News on Monday.
"There was people pinned under the front of the city bus. A lady was crying and screaming, 'Get me out! Get me out!"' he said.
A pedestrian was among those killed, identified by police as Henry Wdowiak, 68, of Queens. The other fatalities included the charter bus driver 49-year-old Raymond Mong and a passenger onboard the commuter bus.
Sixteen others were injured, some of them seriously, in the crash which took place in the Queens neighbourhood of Flushing at 6.15am (local time) on Monday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was shocked by the "sheer destruction."
