NEW YORK — A New York City bus driver suffered a medical emergency Thursday morning and crashed his bus into a closed Burger King restaurant, police said.
The driver crashed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus into the fast-food restaurant in Brooklyn just after midnight, police said. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. Neither of the two passengers on the bus were injured.
One of the passengers, Valorie Turner, 60, was a paramedic who went to the driver’s aid. told TV station Fox 5.
“He was groaning; he was saying whatever,” Turner said. “I started CPR.”
Photos show debris and broken glass on the sidewalk.
Turner said the bus began accelerating before it crashed, “and before I knew it, we were at Burger King.”
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