PHOENIX — A man is hospitalized after a bus crash in south Phoenix.
At about 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Phoenix firefighters were dispatched to 22nd Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road for reports of a crash involving a bus.
When crews arrived they found that a bus collided with a small structure.
One person had to be removed from the wreckage and was taken to a hospital in critical condition, according to the Phoenix Fire Department.
A Phoenix police sergeant at the scene tells ABC15 the victim was a security officer working in a security booth. The only person on the bus was the driver.
A woman arrived at the scene and told ABC15 that her brother Louie was the one who was hit. She was shocked by the aftermath.
"If you could smash a tuna can, that's what it looked like... that's what it looked like. How they got him out of there… I don't know if they had previously done some stuff to it before then, but from what I've seen... yeah, he's lucky. We're lucky to have him and we're blessed to still have him," she said.
She said Louie is expected to recover. ABC15 was told he has only been working security at the transit center for just a few months.
Phoenix police say the crash does not appear to be criminal in nature and no impairment is suspected.
This incident remains under investigation.
