14 injured after New York City sightseeing buses crash in Times Square

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last updated 10 January 2015

Fourteen people were injured Tuesday afternoon after two sightseeing buses crashed into each other in New York's Times Square.

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Three of the injured are in serious but stable condition, and eight have minor injuries. One of those hurt was a baby in a stroller, 1010 WINS reports. Witness Ace Guzman watched the scene unfold from the street corner, and heard what he described as a deafening "boom." "It was a real loud noise — real loud — and then you could hear everybody screaming and crying and of course...grabbing their kids," he said. "It was really nuts."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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