{"id":441256,"date":"2025-12-12T00:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441256\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:36:22","slug":"port-authority-bus-crashes-into-nyc-scaffolding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441256\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Authority bus crashes into NYC scaffolding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An out-of-control Port Authority bus plowed into a Midtown Manhattan building Thursday evening, taking out a scaffolding with it in a wreck that injured one, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p>The Port Authority bus barreled onto the sidewalk on East 41st Street between Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue around 4:35 p.m., the FDNY and NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>One person was transported to Bellevue Hospital, though their exact injuries are unclear, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37907136\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-new-york-n-y-117171843.jpg\" alt=\"A bus that crashed into building scaffolding near Grand Central Station, with debris scattered around.\" class=\"wp-image-37907136\"  \/>The Port Authority bus barreled onto the sidewalk at an intersection along East 41st Street between Lexington. James Keivom<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37907142\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-new-york-n-y-117171800.jpg\" alt=\"The rear of a Coach USA bus is seen partially under collapsed building scaffolding, with yellow caution tape in the foreground.\" class=\"wp-image-37907142\"  \/>The bus was traveling eastbound on 41st Street when the NYPD said \u201cit lost control.\u201d James Keivom<\/p>\n<p>The bus was traveling eastbound on 41st Street when police said \u201cit lost control\u201d and smashed through the scaffolding.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses in a building overlooking the crash shared an aerial view of the wreck. The front half of the bus was on the sidewalk while the end stuck out into the road, according to the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KristinThorne\/status\/1999237529506070640?s=20\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a>\u00a0shared online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYo, that s\u2013t\u2019s in the building!\u201d one person could be heard saying in the background of the video.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver was a man in his 30s, according to cops. An investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An out-of-control Port Authority bus plowed into a Midtown Manhattan building Thursday evening, taking out a scaffolding with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,17833,9904,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-441256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-midtown","11":"tag-mta","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115703801591118686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}