NYC bus crashes into Burger King after driver apparently suffers a medical episode

NEW YORK — A New York City bus driver suffered a medical emergency Thursday morning and crashed his bus into a closed Burger King restaurant, police said.

The driver crashed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus into the fast-food restaurant in Brooklyn just after midnight, police said. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. Neither of the two passengers on the bus were injured.

One of the passengers, Valorie Turner, 60, was a paramedic who went to the driver’s aid. told TV station Fox 5.

“He was groaning; he was saying whatever,” Turner said. “I started CPR.”

Photos show debris and broken glass on the sidewalk.

Turner said the bus began accelerating before it crashed, “and before I knew it, we were at Burger King.”