A coach bus crashed into a bank in the city of Orange in New Jersey Wednesday, hitting a pedestrian along the way, an official says.
Witnesses said the Coach USA commuter bus was traveling east on Main Street when it got into an accident with a gray Altima, sending the bus careening into a Bank of America branch.
The bus also hit a pedestrian standing on the sidewalk, and he ended up across the street, partially under a parked car, witnesses said.
No on inside the bank was hurt. and there were no passengers on board the bus at the time of the crash, officials said.
The 77-year-old bus driver and the 39-year-old Altima driver were taken to the hospital. The pedestrian who bore the force of the crash, a 34-year-old man from New York City, is very critically injured, officials said.
A spokesman for Coach USA, which operates the bus, did not immediately return a call for comment.
