Contractors spent Tuesday morning repairing damage and replacing a 250-pound manhole cover that blew up as the Q66 bus headed east on North Boulevard in Corona.
The bus was pulled from its wheels before the driver lost control and hit a parked car.
This happened on 30 October and eyewitnesses got the video of the incident and soon after.
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A total of nine people on the bus were injured, some of whom were carried on stretchers from the scene.
Raynelda Calderone works nearby and comes running. He filmed the damage inside the bus where the cover of the manhole made a hole in the floor.
“I looked inside and saw a woman inside who was bleeding, and I call 911 and stay there until they come to help her,” she said.
The section of North Boulevard was recently re-paved, and a source familiar with the project told Eyewitness News that the manhole was likely damaged when the original road surface was removed from the ground by the DOT – and was never replaced properly.
Instead it will come loose, an accident waiting to happen.
The cover was replaced on Tuesday by contractors hired by Verizon, whose employees use manholes.
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MTA Acting President Jano Lieber has praised DoT several times, but not to it.
“DOT was repairing the road, and it seemed that there was something incomplete about how the manholes were retrofitted,” he said. “I mean, we work closely with the DOT. They’re responsible for the roads. You know, we’re like any driver who’s just driving over and hits a pothole.”
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