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A Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus crashed into a home in the city’s Homewood South neighborhood after a police chase involving another vehicle Tuesday afternoon.The homeowner, Dennis Williams, told sister station WTAE that his home is structurally safe, but his front porch which caught the force of the bus is condemned. He was inside his home at the time of the crash but was unharmed.”I was on my second floor in my TV room. I heard a loud crash and bang,” Williams said. “Basically the porch absorbed the energy from the bus crashing into it, and when I looked out of the window, I saw the top of the bus where my porch used to be.”WTAE’s Sky 4 news chopper captured a large, accordion-style bus that had crashed through the front porch of a house near an intersection. PRT said in a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the bus crashed into the home after it was hit by a vehicle fleeing from police. Two people, the driver of the bus and a passenger, were taken to a nearby hospital, PRT said. Those injuries are “not thought to be serious.” About eight passengers were on board at the time of the crash.According to PRT, officers from the Monroeville Police Department were reportedly chasing a vehicle that hit the bus. The bus then went off the road and into the house. Monroeville, a Pittsburgh suburb, is located around 14 miles outside of the city.”I had to come out of my back door, and this is what I was presented with, so it’s been a long tedious day here,” Williams said. Witnesses on the scene told WTAE that police were chasing a vehicle that ran a red light. It then hit the bus before the bus crashed into the home. The suspect who police were pursuing fled the scene. Officials have not yet said what led up to the pursuit.Sources tell WTAE that a Monroeville police officer involved in the chase was also taken to the hospital with a broken leg.
A Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus crashed into a home in the city’s Homewood South neighborhood after a police chase involving another vehicle Tuesday afternoon.
The homeowner, Dennis Williams, told sister station WTAE that his home is structurally safe, but his front porch which caught the force of the bus is condemned. He was inside his home at the time of the crash but was unharmed.
“I was on my second floor in my TV room. I heard a loud crash and bang,” Williams said. “Basically the porch absorbed the energy from the bus crashing into it, and when I looked out of the window, I saw the top of the bus where my porch used to be.”
WTAE’s Sky 4 news chopper captured a large, accordion-style bus that had crashed through the front porch of a house near an intersection.
PRT said in a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the bus crashed into the home after it was hit by a vehicle fleeing from police.
Two people, the driver of the bus and a passenger, were taken to a nearby hospital, PRT said. Those injuries are “not thought to be serious.” About eight passengers were on board at the time of the crash.
According to PRT, officers from the Monroeville Police Department were reportedly chasing a vehicle that hit the bus. The bus then went off the road and into the house. Monroeville, a Pittsburgh suburb, is located around 14 miles outside of the city.
“I had to come out of my back door, and this is what I was presented with, so it’s been a long tedious day here,” Williams said.
Witnesses on the scene told WTAE that police were chasing a vehicle that ran a red light. It then hit the bus before the bus crashed into the home.
The suspect who police were pursuing fled the scene. Officials have not yet said what led up to the pursuit.
Sources tell WTAE that a Monroeville police officer involved in the chase was also taken to the hospital with a broken leg.
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