Last Updated on January 16, 2023 by C-CAR
SAN BERNARDINO >> Maurice Glover was reading a book while sitting near the back of a Greyhound when the bus started bouncing and passengers flew past him in the aisle.
Another passenger, a man in his 20s, had yanked the steering wheel from the driver, forcing the bus into a ditch on the north side of the 10 Freeway on Saturday afternoon.
“One of the passengers ran into the driver as he was driving and pulled on the wheel, and we careened off the highway,” Glover said.
Twenty-two people were inside the silver and navy bus when it left the freeway just shy of the Waterman Avenue exit about 2:48 p.m., according to California Highway Patrol Sgt. Grady Stevens. No one was seriously injured, he said.
The bus crossed into the right shoulder, hopped a small gravel curb, descended a seven-foot hill, crashed through a chain-link fence, dropped another two feet and stopped on the upslope of a dirt hill behind a shopping center.
Passengers kicked open two windows and helped each other off the bus, Glover said.
The man who caused the crash jumped through the broken front windshield and fled, hopping a fence near a Home Depot and an L.A. Fitness.
Law enforcement officers found him a few blocks away, lying down in the parking lot of an Olive Garden, Stevens said. The man’s left forearm had a five-inch laceration, and he suffered other minor wounds, Stevens said. He will be treated at a hospital and arrested, the sergeant said.
Five others on the bus suffered minor injuries, as well, according to Stevens.
One man was bleeding from his face, Glover said, and described an older man as having trouble breathing.
Fuel leaked and Glover saw smoke after the crash.
CHP officers drove the stranded passengers to the Greyhound station in San Bernardino, so they could escape the heat and figure out their next move.
Glover planned on riding the entire route Saturday, from Phoenix to Los Angeles.
He was going to watch Fourth of July fireworks in Laguna Beach.
