A student driver operating a New Jersey Transit bus slammed into an office building Wednesday morning.
The crash happened in Leonia — about 10 miles from Midtown Manhattan — just before 9 a.m. The driver reportedly lost control while making a turn, ran over a tree and hit a closed, unoccupied business, Kitchens and Stone of Leonia.
“She was making a right turn over here, and she didn’t straighten the wheel, the wheel was still to the right and she jumped those two curbs over there and then went right down into the hole,” a school crossing guard who witnessed the crash told ABC 7.
A photo published by NBC New York showed the bus — with a “STUDENT DRIVER” sign on the back — stuck between the building and some trees near a bus stop. That station reported the building sustained structural damage and that the windshield of the bus was smashed.
Only the driver and instructor were on the bus. Neither was injured in the crash.
NJ Transit did not identify the driver or instructor and said the crash was under investigation by local police.
The incident occurred two days after a school bus overturned on the Garden State Parkway, leaving 13 injured.