The driver of a Dodge Charger blatantly ran a stop sign in Long Beach, California, last week only to be smacked into a restaurant by a city bus in broad daylight.
Investigators determined that the driver of the Charger was speeding when they blew the stop around 3 p.m. on Nov. 9. The driver attempted to brake once entering the busy intersection at high speed, but it was too little too late and the massive bulk of the city bus launched the Charger into the thankfully empty Boujie Crab restaurant, According to KTLA 5:
Fire officials said five people were hospitalized with injuries ranging from minor to critical but stable. Nine others suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.
The owner of the nearby Sohan Market, Jay Singh witnessed the impact and ran across the street to help.
“I helped two or three people come out of the bus,” he said. I gave them rubbing alcohol and cotton so they could wipe out their blood. I want to go inside but I saw smoke coming out of the bus.
At least 14 people were injured in the incident, but thankfully no one was killed in this harrowing collision.
Emergency responders arrived on-site and extracted the bus from the Boujie Crab, but as a tow truck was extracting the Charger, the car burst into flames. As the media has covered the numerous EV fires, this serves as a reminder that internal combustion engines pose a high fire risk, too.
Please stop at stop signs and remember that there are other people on the road who don’t deserve to be threatened by your recklessness.
