MANHATTAN — A woman was hit by a yellow school bus at 67th Street and Columbus Avenue Friday afternoon, fire department officials said.
The woman, who was not identified, was struck while walking in the crosswalk on the northwest corner of 67th and Columbus at 4:08 p.m., officials said.
Witnesses said the bus — which is owned by SuperTrans, a Yonkers-based school bus company that serves students from Horace Mann, Riverdale and FIeldston, according to their website — was traveling southbound on Columbus and turned right into the crosswalk when it hit the woman.
A SuperTrans employee declined to comment on the crash.
Witnesses said the bus's right rear wheel caught the woman's foot and dragged her underneath.
The woman was taken to St. Luke's Hospital. The extent of her injuries were not immediately clear, but witnesses said her head was bleeding after she fell onto the pavement.
"I saw the old lady lying in the street with blood streaming from her head and her foot crushed under the wheel. It was pretty disturbing," said a doorman at a nearby building who declined to give his name. "I don't want to see anybody get screwed up like that."
Another witness said the woman seemed conscious after she was struck, and added that emergency crews were on the scene within minutes.
"The lady was crossing the street and the bus was making a turn, it looked like she didn't see it," said Myriam Naveda, a mail carrier who saw the crash.
