Nearly 80 injured after collision between two buses

Two buses, including one full of tourists, collided Thursday evening in the New York borough of Manhattan, injuring more than 80 including 18 hospitalized, according to firefighters.

The crash happened around 7 p.m. on First Avenue near Gramercy Park, New York Fire Deputy Chief Kevin Murphy said.

Footage posted by firefighters on Twitter shows an open-top, double-decker tourist bus crashing into the back of another city-operated bus.

“Both buses appeared to be full,” said Paul Hopper, an assistant chief of the fire department’s emergency medical service.

According to a source from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the authority responsible for public transport in New York, and quoted by the New York Post, the driver of the double-decker bus ran a red light before colliding with the second bus.