Two people injured after crash at bus stop in Sydney

Two women have been injured after a car crashed into a bus stop at Drummoyne, in Sydney's Inner-West this morning.

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00:00 During peak hour this morning a woman waiting at this bus shelter was hit by a car after

00:06 a bus and a car are believed to have collided into one another.

00:10 Authorities believe that the car had mounted the gutter behind me leaving tire marks before

00:15 shattering the glass here at the bus stop and hitting and injuring the woman.

00:19 Emergency services arrived at the scene just before 8 to treat two women for injuries.

00:24 Emergency crews had to work to free one of the women from the car before the two women

00:29 were treated for serious injuries.

00:31 A woman believed to be aged in her 40s was treated for serious neck injuries and transported

00:36 to RPA hospital where she would receive further treatment while a woman in her 20s was treated

00:41 for head and arm injuries at the scene.

00:43 15 people were believed to be on the bus at the time and had since escaped injury.

00:47 Speaking with Fire and Rescue NSW a short time ago they detailed just how rare it is

00:51 for them to receive numerous phone calls for a bus stop incident.

00:54 Here's what they had to say a short time ago.

00:56 It just goes to show you how vulnerable we can be in the community particularly around

01:00 just going to work or day to day businesses and all of a sudden something you're just

01:04 not expecting occurs.

01:07 So that person's in the good care of paramedics and now in the hospital system but firefighters

01:11 having to cut that car away to get the driver out as well but were suffering some pretty

01:16 serious injuries.

01:17 Two city bound lanes here in the intersection of Victoria Road and Westbourne Street at

01:23 Dremoine were closed after the accident but have since reopened.

01:27 Buses are continuing to run after maintenance crews spent the morning cleaning up shattered

01:31 glass and taking photos of further evidence after this crash.

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