Driver Pulled from Car After Bus-Car Collision in Tribeca

The unidentified driver of a BMW, white car at left, is taken to a waiting ambulance on Sixth Avenue near White Street. The car was hit by the bus at left and spun around, hitting the black parked car. Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib

A bus heading up Sixth Avenue, bound for the Holland Tunnel, collided with a car near White Street on Wednesday around noon, spinning the white BMW 180 degrees and sending the car’s injured driver to the hospital.

The condition of the unidentified woman, who was taken to New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, was “non life-threatening,” according to the FDNY, which had no further information on her injuries.

Before firefighters had arrived in response to a call for a trapped driver, the woman was quickly removed from the car by a passerby, according to Rob Brown, the driver of the Yep motor coach that hit the car.

Brown, who was on a run between New York City and Philadelphia, said the woman pulled in front of him from a right lane without warning.

“As I’m normally heading straight, heading to the Holland Tunnel, the lady with the white BMW just turns left, no signal or anything, and the people [in the bus] were saying, ‘Oh, I can’t believe she just did that.’”

“She just turned out of nowhere,” Brown added. “I don’t know what she was trying to do. I thought she must be sick or something. I hit the car and it kind of swung her a little bit.”

As the badly damaged car spun around in the far left lane, it smashed into a parked Toyota Sienna.

After being hit, Brown said, the driver stood in the car. “She was standing up over the sun roof and just looked around a little bit and then the guy assisted her out of it.”