55 injured in Los Angeles after Metro train collides with bus

At slightest 55 group person been injured successful Los Angeles aft a University of Southern California shuttle autobus collided pinch a Metro ray obstruction train, officials say. 

The Los Angeles Fire Department says nan mishap happened astir noon Tuesday on Exposition Boulevard adjacent nan USC Campus and Natural History Museum. 

"The autobus decidedly sewage crunched connected its beforehand end," Genesis Hernandez, who was walking successful nan area astir nan clip of nan collision, told The Associated Press. "All of a abrupt I conscionable saw a bunch of ambulances going by." 

Dave Sotero, a spokesperson for LA Metro, said to nan AP that nan autobus crossed into nan way of an E Line train. The ray obstruction statement runs from East Los Angeles to downtown Santa Monica mostly on streets, and not each of nan crossings person gates. 

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First responders connected segment astatine nan location wherever a autobus collided pinch a Los Angeles Metro train connected Tuesday. (KTTV)

The Starcraft 40-passenger autobus was walking pinch only nan driver and 1 rider aboard erstwhile nan collision occurred, according to a connection from USC Transportation. The autobus driver and rider were nan 2 astir severely injured, occurrence section officials say. 

There were besides much than 150 passengers connected nan Santa Monica-bound Metro train. 

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A personification injured successful nan collision adjacent nan USC Campus and nan Natural History Museum of Los Angeles is taken distant from nan scene. (KTTV)

The Los Angeles Fire Department says first responders "evaluated and treated astatine slightest 55 group arsenic a consequence of nan train/bus collision." 

Sixteen of those group were transported to section aesculapian accommodation successful adjacent condition, while different 37 were treated and released astatine nan scene. 

Sotero said nan Los Angeles Police Department would beryllium successful complaint of nan investigation. 

An LA Metro spokesperson says nan collision happened erstwhile nan autobus crossed into nan way of nan train. (KTTV)

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"Metro offers its sympathy to those injured successful nan accident," Sotero told nan AP. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.