Halifax Transit bus involved in three-vehicle crash in city’s downtown
A portion of Barrington Street has reopened after a three-vehicle crash Tuesday morning.
According to a news release from Halifax Regional Police, officers responded to the reported collision involving a Halifax Transit bus in the 2400-block area of Barrington Street around 11 a.m.
Police say the vehicles were allegedly travellling in opposite directions when they collided and then hit the bus.
A three-vehicle collision on Barrington Street in Halifax on April 16, 2024. (Mike Lamb/CTV Atlantic)
Two people in one or both of the cars involved in the crash were taken to hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. No one on the bus was injured.
The road was closed between North and Cogswell streets. It reopened just after 2 p.m.
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