No one injured when ladder flies through Metro bus window in Greenwood

by | Apr 6, 2011

A Route 48 bus was traveling west on NW 85th Street Tuesday morning at 6th Avenue NW about 9:50 a.m. when a ladder flew off a passing truck and went partway through the windshield.

Photo by PhinneyWood reader Shelly Rae Clift.
Metro Spokeswoman Linka Thielke tells us the ladder apparently flew off the truck when it changed lanes as it passed the bus on the left. Thielke said the bus driver was shaken up but not injured. Passengers caught the following bus.
Shelly Rae Clift, who took the above photo, said the ladder came from a Comcast truck.

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