15 Hurt After Drunken Driver Smashes Into MTA Bus In BK: NYPD

BROOKLYN, NY — A suspected drunken driver crashed with a minivan in a chain reaction crash involving an MTA bus in Brooklyn Tuesday evening, injuring at least 15 people, officials said.

The crash unfolded when a 60-year-old man slammed his Lexus into a 2011 Honda minivan while trying to make a left turn onto Livonia Avenue from Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York about 4:30 p.m., police said.

The Lexus then crashed into a parked car before being sideswiped by an MTA bus heading north on Pennsylvania Avenue, NYPD officials said.

Ten people on the bus, including the driver, were also taken to area hospitals with minor injuries, an NYPD spokesperson said Wednesday.

All four people inside the minivan — three women, ages 18, 34 and 64, and a 3-year-old boy — were injured in the crash and rushed to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, police said.

The Lexus driver was taken to Brookdale Hospital and is now in police custody under suspicion of driving while intoxicated, authorities said. Charges against him were pending as of Wednesday morning, police said.