00:00We are learning about a bus crash
00:01in Ramapo. Let's get right
00:03to News 12's Carol Wilkinson. She is live
00:06at the scene. Carol, what's going on there?
00:11Well, Tama, as you might imagine, quite
00:13a chaotic scene here. We are,
00:15I'm told, at the Walmart Shopping
00:18Center in Ramapo in
00:19the village of Muncie. The incident
00:21happened just after 7.30
00:24this evening. I'm going to step out of
00:26the way and let you see what is going on
00:28at this point. Now, police here
00:29on the scene tell me that the
00:31bus driver of this
00:33green tour transport
00:35of Rockland bus was
00:37behind the wheel when he
00:39suffered some sort of a medical
00:41emergency.
00:43Losing control of this
00:45huge bus that you see,
00:47the bus driver
00:49hit, while behind
00:51the wheel, hit three
00:53cars here in the parking
00:55lot. Now, police couldn't tell me
00:57what kind of seizure that bus
00:59driver suffered, but he did
01:01say that he was taken
01:03to Good Samaritan Hospital.
01:05I talked with one of the
01:08drivers of one of
01:09the cars that was
01:11hitting heavily damaged here. Here's
01:13what she had to say.
01:16Just brought my grandma
01:17to grocery shopping. We're checking
01:19out, and then we heard all the
01:21commotion, and the cashier was like, oh my god, oh my god.
01:24And then we just look outside,
01:26and the bus was like, circling, circling, circling,
01:28and just hit all the
01:29cars. Well, three cars.
01:31Your car was one of them?
01:33Yes, it was.
01:34How bad is the damage to your
01:35car?
01:36It's just the back piece,
01:37but it's just so
01:40unfortunate, you know?
01:42And like...
01:42Are you going to be able to
01:43drive it?
01:45They're saying I can drive it,
01:47that it's drivable, but
01:49I guess we'll see.
01:51Because it's just the back piece,
01:52but the other two cars are
01:53way worse than mine.
01:58And she counts herself as one of the
02:00lucky ones. She's very calm, as you can
02:02see in that piece, but while
02:04we were here, another driver
02:06came running out of one of the
02:08stores, screaming, what happened
02:10to my car? What happened to my car?
02:12The last we saw, well, his
02:14car is now on a
02:16tow truck being towed away.
02:17Now, the good part, if there's any
02:20goodness in any of this event that
02:21happened tonight, is police tell me
02:23that there were no passengers
02:25on the bus at the time
02:27of that medical emergency that
02:30happened to the bus driver, that
02:31there were no injuries,
02:33miraculously. We are here
02:36in Ramapo, village of Muncie.
02:38Dramatic new footage
02:40of a Rockland County bus coming
02:42within feet of slamming into a
02:43busy grocery store. The driver,
02:46who experienced a medical emergency
02:47last night, has been released from the
02:49hospital and is now home.
02:51That driver did a 360-degree
02:53turn before damaging
02:55several vehicles. Store
02:57customers ran out to see
02:59what was going on.
03:02People ran out of the store.
03:03They were basically very terrified
03:05of there's something that's going to happen
03:07in a very busy time
03:09Saturday night when people go out
03:11shopping. Things happen in this
03:13parking lot, but something like this
03:14never happened before. The Rockland
03:17County Sheriff's Department is
03:18still finalizing a report. You can
03:20stay with News 12 for more
03:21developments as they happen.
