A school bus crash occurred in Brooklyn. Separately, city officials and safety advocates have flagged Linden Boulevard for years as one of the borough's most dangerous corridors.
The intersection sits along a section of Linden Boulevard that has drawn scrutiny from city transportation officials for its crash history. Between 2021 and 2025, 443 people were injured in crashes along the targeted stretch of the boulevard, including 15 severe injuries and one fatality, per brooklyn.news12.com.
A Corridor Long Flagged as Dangerous
Separately, city data cited by Gothamist shows nine people have died in crashes on or near Linden Boulevard since 2021, and Transportation Alternatives has said at least 60 people have been seriously injured on the street since 2022, according to the station's reporting on the corridor. The group has pointed to intersections including Rockaway Parkway and Rockaway Avenue, where four-year-old Zachariah Padilla and 38-year-old Joseph Bellino were killed in separate hit-and-runs, the same report notes.
Enforcement on the boulevard has also been heavy. Police issued more than 1,600 moving violations to drivers on Linden Boulevard in a single month this year, officials told Gothamist, underscoring how frequently drivers have been cited for infractions along the roadway even before this week's crash.
City Redesign Still Months From Finished
Parts of Linden Boulevard run roughly 140 feet wide from curb to curb, forcing pedestrians to cross as many as 10 lanes of traffic in a single stretch, per the news12.com report. In response, the city is moving forward with a redesign of the boulevard between Fountain Avenue and Conduit Avenue in East New York that includes eight concrete pedestrian islands doubling as bus boarding areas, new traffic signals, new crosswalks and dedicated bus-only lanes.
Construction on that redesign is expected to have begun at the end of summer, with the full project set for completion in 2027, the outlet reported. It's unclear whether Wednesday's crash site falls within the boundaries of that planned overhaul.
Part of a Wider Pattern on City Buses
Wednesday's crash adds to a string of school-bus incidents across the city this year. Citywide, there were 107 school-bus-involved crashes with a reported cause during the 2025–26 school year, and driver inattention or distraction was cited in about a third of them, according to qns.com. Those crashes were concentrated along major thoroughfares in Queens, though they occurred across all five boroughs, the outlet reported.
In September, a school bus crashed into the front of a building on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, damaging the structure and leaving the 65-year-old driver — who was the only person aboard — with minor injuries, according to abc7ny.com. No students were on that bus at the time, the outlet reported.
No information has been released about who was driving the bus involved in Wednesday's crash, what caused the collision, or the condition of those who were treated. Hoodline will update this story as more details become available.
