INDIANAPOLIS — A woman was struck by an IndyGo bus and critically injured on the far east side of Indianapolis Monday afternoon.
Police officers were initially dispatched to East Washington Street, near Washington Square Mall, around 4 p.m. on a report of trouble with a person. That run was later updated to an accident involving injury.
According to IMPD, a woman who may have been intoxicated was reportedly causing trouble on an IndyGo bus, refusing to get off of the bus.
After seven passengers who were on the bus were transferred to a second bus to get them on their way, the 33-year-old woman allegedly got off the first bus and ran toward the second bus as it drove away.
According to IFD, the woman slipped and got pinned under the rear tires of the second bus and was injured. She was reportedly alert and talking with firefighters at the scene before she was taken to Eskenazi Hospital in critical condition.
Police are still investigating how the woman became pinned under the tires of the bus.
The bus driver was taken in for a blood draw, which is standard procedure for such an investigation, police said.