Hit by car, CTA bus crashes into bank at Willis Tower

Chicago Tribune (IL)

Oct. 06--The driver of the car that hit a CTA bus, which then crashed into a bank at the base of Willis Tower early Saturday morning, has been cited, police said.

Around 1:55 a.m., the car, which was southbound on Franklin Street -- going the wrong way, as Franklin is one-way northbound -- ran into a CTA bus going west on Adams Street, police said.

The CTA bus then hit "a business establishment" in the 200 block of West Adams Street, police said. The front of the bus appeared to have gone into the Fifth Third Bank at Willis Tower on the south side of Adams. Shards of glass covered the sidewalk and spilled into the street, where a smaller silver or gold car had stopped facing west, its front end crumpled.

Three adults and one juvenile were taken to Rush University Medical Center, while one adult was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. All are stabilized, police said.

Across Franklin, a security guard inside the CitiBank on the north side of Adams had noticed the bus driving by westbound. Seconds later, he heard "a very terrible sound," he said.

He went outside and saw the bus crashed into the skyscraper.