A Bus Operator who despite his own injuries rescued seven passengers from his vehicle after a freakish crash that left it dangling precariously above a roadway Jan. 14 two days later blasted the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for accusing him of refusing alcohol and drug testing, offering hospital records to show he eventually was tested.
At around 11 p.m. that night, Bus Operator Everton Beccan, 55, was traveling north on University Ave. in the Highbridge section approaching a ramp leading to the Cross Bronx Expressway. Instead of successfully negotiating the turn, the articulated bus careened through a guard rail, causing the front end of the bus to plummet 50 feet, coming to rest perpendicularly on the road below while the back section dangled from the street above.
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