BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Three people were injured, one seriously, when a Brockton Area Transit Authority bus clipped a fire hydrant and smashed head-on into a tree Thursday morning.
Emergency crews responding to a reported crash involving a bat bus on East Street about 9 a.m. worked frantically to free the driver, who was left trapped in the wreckage, according to the Brockton Fire Department.
The driver, a 59-year-old woman, was flown to a Boston hospital with serious injuries after firefighters worked for nearly an hour to free her.
“She was begging, she was crying, she was screaming, she was saying ‘please get this wheel of my chest,'” one passenger said of the driver. “She couldn’t move.”
Brockton Dep. Fire Chief Jerry Kenney said the impact of the crash left the driver pinned up against the steering column.
“Her left foot was stuck between the tree and the bus itself,” he said. “It was kind of jammed in there.”
Two passengers on the bus suffered minor injuries and were taken to an area hospital.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
No additional information was immediately available.
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