CTA Bus Crash A CTA bus crashed into at least 20 parked cars on Diversey Avenue near Kedzie Avenue, after apparently losing consciousness behind the wheel on Dec. 21, 2012. The bus also hit the wall of a laundromat before it came to a stop. (Credit: CBS) 
 
 CTA Bus Crash A CTA bus crashed into at least 20 parked cars on Diversey Avenue near Kedzie Avenue, after apparently losing consciousness behind the wheel on Dec. 21, 2012. The bus also hit the wall of a laundromat before it came to a stop. (Credit: CBS) 
 
 CTA Bus Crash A CTA bus crashed into at least 20 parked cars on Diversey Avenue near Kedzie Avenue, after apparently losing consciousness behind the wheel on Dec. 21, 2012. The bus also hit the wall of a laundromat before it came to a stop. (Credit: CBS) 
 
 CTA Bus Crash A CTA bus crashed into at least 20 parked cars on Diversey Avenue near Kedzie Avenue, after apparently losing consciousness behind the wheel on Dec. 21, 2012. The bus also hit the wall of a laundromat before it came to a stop. (Credit: CBS) 
 
 CTA Bus Crash A CTA bus crashed into at least 20 parked cars on Diversey Avenue near Kedzie Avenue, after apparently losing consciousness behind the wheel on Dec. 21, 2012. The bus also hit the wall of a laundromat before it came to a stop. (Credit: CBS) 
 
 CHICAGO (CBS) –Many people were counting their blessings Friday after a CTA bus plowed into parked cars and a laundry. 
 
 As CBS 2’s Mai Martinez reports, the CTA says the bus driver passed out at the wheel before the accident, which occurred before 9 a.m. in the 2800 block of North Kedzie Avenue. Cars ended up piled on top of cars like toys. 
 
 “We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Ariel Gonzalez of Red Line Towing, who estimated the damage at more than $250,000. 
 
 That was just the cars. A Laundromat also was damaged, its sign almost taken down. 
 
 Edwin Torres, who lives nearby, heard the crash and ran to his window. 
 
 “It was like chaos everywhere. All these cars were waiting for the lights, and then everybody was out checking to see if everybody was OK, if anybody got hurt,” he said. 
 
 Owners of the cars also rushed out to see what happened. Marie Williams was counting her blessings. 
 
 “I’m just more grateful for my life. A car you can always get back,” she said. 
 
 She and others say they were more concerned about the bus driver. 
 
 “They had him with oxygen on him,” Torres said. 
 
 According to the CTA, only the driver and one passenger on the bus were injured. The CTA says the driver was hospitalized in stable condition. 
 
 They didn’t immediately know the condition of the injured passenger. ||||| NBC Chicago's Dick Johnson spoke with those involved in the crash and those who offered help. (Published Tuesday, June 2, 2015) 
 
 One person was killed and eight others injured in a serious crash involving a Chicago Transit Authority bus during the Tuesday evening rush hour, officials said. 
 
 The fatality was a 51-year-old woman who died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She was identified as Aimee Coath of Flossmoor, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. 
 
 Eight others, including the bus driver, were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. 
 
 The Route 148 Clarendon/Michigan Express bus was eastbound on Lake Street just before 6 p.m. when it collided with several other vehicles at North Michigan Avenue and East Lake Street. 
 
 Ambulances Called to Downtown Bus Crash 
 
 NBC Chicgao's Dick Johnson reports from North Michigan Avenue and East Lake Street. (Published Tuesday, June 2, 2015) 
 
 "[The bus] hit the curb and went up on the curb and slammed into a concrete wall," said witness Robert Kudd. "People were screaming and running towards the bus. The bus driver was hurt. The windshield of the bus was out." 
 
 At least 10 ambulances were called to the scene. 
 
 Kudd said one person who was pinned under the bus was removed with a white sheet covering them. 
 
 "It was a bad scene. Several cars were smashed," he said. 
 
 Evanston resident Julie Larkin works in the Michigan Plaza building near the site of the crash. She said she was in a first-floor CVS store when she heard a scream and then "horrible thuddy crash." 
 
 She ran outside to see the bus driver with his eyes closed, apparently unconscious. No one except for the driver was on the CTA bus at the time of the crash, according to fire officials and the CTA. Several people boarded the bus to check on the driver while Larkin called 911. 
 
 "I'll never forget that scream," she said. 
 
 The articulated bus came to rest on the sidewalk adjacent to a plaza at 205 N. Michigan Ave. The bus was removed from the scene shortly before 8:30 p.m. 
 
 Investigators were looking into what caused the crash, and were analyzing video footage from a camera on board that shows the interior of the bus, CTA spokesman Brian Steele said. 
 
 Parts of Michigan Avenue and Lake Street were closed to traffic for several hours. The CTA rerouted several buses around the crash scene.
– Amazingly no one was killed when a Chicago bus driver passed out at the wheel yesterday and plowed into at least 20 cars and a laundromat, CBS Chicago reports. "Literally looked like a scene out of a movie," said a tow truck driver who estimated the damage at over $250,000. Residents rushed outside to witness the wreckage at the 2800 block of North Kedzie Avenue, where cars were piled on top of each other and a laundromat wall was damaged. "I’m just more grateful for my life," said the owner of a damaged car. "A car you can always get back." Only the driver and a bus passenger were reported injured, and both were hospitalized in fair-to-serious condition, DNAInfo reports; a medical emergency was said to cause the driver's blackout. Incredibly, it wasn't the only bus-gone-wild story this month: A 12-year-old girl in Lake Elmo, Minn., stopped a bus full of school kids by pressing her hand on the brake after the driver lost consciousness, reports CBS Minnesota.