ST. LOUIS – There were frightening moments this morning after a three vehicle crash just north of downtown involving a Metro bus.

It all happened at Tucker and Cass around 9:30 a.m. There were two passenger vehicles involved and a Metro bus.

Witnesses tell us that the two cars were involved in a crash, and then one of the vehicles slammed into the bus, which was stopped at a traffic light.

One witness said a driver ran the red light and hit another car before crashing into the bus.

“Another day in St. Louis. That’s how I would describe it,” said Richard Seller, a passenger on the bus at the time of the crash.

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He said the car was going at least 45 miles per hour when it slammed into the bus. “I was in the back of the back, so it was just a jolt. Maybe moved one or two feet with a quick jolt. The people in the front of the bus took a serious hit,” said Sellers.

Authorities tell us nobody was seriously hurt in any of the vehicles. We understand that three people on the bus were taken to the hospital to get checked out, but nobody from the two passenger cars was transported.

Metro Transit said crashes like the one on Friday are troubling for their entire operation.

“We’ve gone from needing more bus drivers, to needing more mechanics. Pretty soon if this continues, we’ll be needing more buses,” said Chuck Stewart, Metro Transit COO.

FOX 2 spoke with Chief Robert Tracy at Mayor Jones’ Revitalize Downtown St. Louis event Friday morning about the crash.

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“We’re doing things, as you heard, with red light cameras. Trying to leverage technology. We will continue. If you look on our Facebook pages, we’ve done over a dozen missions with state highway and county patrol [operations] and we’re hitting missions in certain critical areas where we’re having these accidents,” said Tracy,

Metro Transit said this is the fourth time someone has crashed into a bus while running a red light in just one week.

Sellers claims that things quickly got out of control when two drivers involved in the crash confronted each other.

“There was a gentleman that was very upset, he tried to get to the driver of this car. The driver that caused this, he was pinned in and had airbags all around him. The passenger of the other car tried to punch him, tried to hit him. People got in between them and pulled them away. He then came back with a knife and made a couple of stabbing efforts,” said Sellers.

We have reached out to St. Louis Police and Metro to get more details, and we will pass those along when we get them.

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