Woman Hurt When Struck, Pinned Under Port Authority Bus

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A woman was struck by a Port Authority bus in Downtown Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening.

A Port Authority bus, the #51 from the Carrick/South Side neighborhoods, was turning onto Wood Street from Fort Pitt Boulevard when the accident occurred around 7:15 p.m.

The unidentified 24-year-old woman has been hospitalized in serious but stable condition. Police say she suffered injuries to her pelvis and her jaw.

She was with a friend crossing Wood Street when she was hit, and for a few moments, she was pinned beneath the bus.

"I was sitting on the bus, and we made a quick turn, and all of a sudden, I see a little girl and I just hear a bump," passenger Ryan Sagwitz told KDKA-TV News. "And then everyone runs off the bus, and all you hear is her screaming."

Passengers who were on the bus said it was a traumatic experience.

"I felt her rolling under the bus. We felt it," Nancy Myers, of Penn Hills, said. "I'm still shaking. I just hope that poor child will be alright."

"We saw the one lady, and it sounded like she was banging on the bus because it looked like she tried to pull her friend before the bus turned, but the bus pulled her under," Darlyn Reeves, another passenger, said.

Port Authority Police are handling the investigation. As is usual in serious bus-related mishaps, the bus driver will be tested for drug and alcohol.

"I went over and talked to her," Louis Turner, who was walking nearby, said. "She rolled over some, I gave her my towel, and she said she was OK. I said don't move no more, if you can't move no more."

One pedestrian who talked to the injured woman said the victim told her she had just finished her first year of teaching. She was with her friend, who was in town for a job interview.

Police have plenty of surveillance video to review. There was a camera on the bus and a nearby Point Park University camera.