This previous week, a celebration bus driver compelled his manner by a busy avenue in Chicago, crashing into over a dozen automobiles and receiving prison fees within the course of. The 45-year-old was chargeable for damaging 18 autos together with an ambulance, with the whole harm amounting to a determine “within the 1000’s” in response to ABC 7 Chicago.

A witness was capable of document a video of the incident, which reveals the bus scraping its manner by a number of oncoming automobiles because it barrels down the crowded avenue. Some have been fortunate sufficient to stroll away with solely minor harm, whereas others sustained sufficient to be thought of totaled. The bus additionally took a beating as properly, with heavy harm to the passenger facet of the car.

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Talking to CBS Information, one other witness described the occasions that unfolded whereas he was along with his girlfriend. “We had simply gotten out of the automobile like 30 seconds earlier than, and we noticed the motive force coming,” he mentioned. “And he took off her mirror. And she or he had walked as much as the sidewalk to see what was happening, and I noticed him backing up. So I pulled her away as a result of I didn’t need her to get hit.”

It stays unknown what the motive force’s motivations have been, or if he was beneath the affect or maybe affected by a medical episode, however it’s price noting he has two prior felonies on his prison document. For this incident, he has been charged with reckless driving, failing to cut back velocity, leaving the scene of a criminal offense, disregarding site visitors management, and felony harm to authorities property. Fortunately, although, regardless of the huge quantities of harm to the all of the autos concerned within the incident, no folks have been harmed.