Nineteen people were injured when four vehicles, including a New York City bus and a firetruck, had an accident in Harlem last Friday. And a female motorist talking on a cellphone may have caused the pile-up.
The multi-vehicle crash took place when a woman driving an Acura sedan pulled out right in front of an ambulance that was racing down West 125th Stree shortly before noon.
One witness told the New York Daily News that the woman didn’t hear the FDNY ambulance’s siren because she was talking on a cellphone.
The ambulance tried to manuever out of the woman’s way. But it still ran into the Acura and then hit a municipal city bus at the intersection of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Power Boulevard. Then an SUV hit the bus.
The injured were taken to local hospitals, but didn’t appear to have serous injuries.
It wasn’t known where the Acura driver would be charged for the collision.
