Upper East Side School Bus Crash: 4 Injured As Bus Crashes Onto Sidewalk

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Four people are injured after a school bus on the Upper East Side jumped the curb and crashed onto a sidewalk near 85th St. and 3rd Avenue, a witness on the scene told Patch.

"Four of them just got taken out," the witness said shortly after the crash.

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Victims were taken to local hospitals with "serious but stable injuries," the FDNY said. Two went to St. Luke's Hospital, and two went to New York Presbyterian Hospital, the NYPD said. No kids were on the bus when it crashed, the NYPD said.

The bus was traveling northbound on 3rd Avenue at 8:17 a.m. when the driver "lost control," the NYPD said.

You can see photos from the scene of the crash above.

The four people were members of the Doe Fund, the witness told Patch, which takes "people with histories of homelessness, incarceration, poverty, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS" and puts them to work cleaning city streets.

The four members of the Doe Fund's Ready, Willing & Able program have been treated and released from the hospital, according to a statement from the organization. The workers were waiting at their staging area at the time of the bus crash, the statement said.

"It’s times like these that we are reminded of what the ‘men in blue’ mean to our neighborhoods. Their commitment to creating a cleaner, safer New York City is tireless, and we have been overwhelmed by the concern and expressions of support from our friends, neighbors, and elected officials."

Our Ready, Willing & Able team has been cleaning NYC streets for over 30 years now! #FlashbackFriday pic.twitter.com/sgCb9l3cph
— The Doe Fund (@TheDoeFund) February 10, 2017

This story will be updated.