DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. – A school bus crashed into a house Thursday afternoon in Dearborn Heights.
No children were on the bus when it crashed at the intersection of Inkster and Annapolis roads.
A white Mercedes sedan crashed into the bus, sending it veering off the road and into the house. The house is not occupied.
Police said the crash pushed the house off its foundation.
Neither driver was hurt in this crash.
The bus driver said she never saw it coming.
"My last drop-off was over here at Annapolis and Middlebelt. So ... I was traveling down Annapolis. I had red a light at Annapolis and Inkster and I stopped at the red light. When the light turned green I took off, and alls I know is, 'boom!' and I was in the house," said the bus driver, Kameelah Sharpley. "If I wouldn't have had the seatbelt on I would have been out the window somewhere."
Sharpley said the woman who was driving the Mercedes told her "I didn't see you." She emphasized the importance of her seatbelt, but said she was worried she might be trapped.
"When I hit the house, I'm thinking, let me get the hell up out of here so I won't be dead nowhere," she said. "Because, I didn't know if it was gonna blow or not. I had to find my seatbelt. That's one reason I really don't like seatbelts because I feel like I'm stuck. I didn't know if the seatbelt was going to come loose ... but I believe if I didn't have that seatbelt on I'd be out the window."
Sharpley said she suffered a little scratch and burns from the seatbelt.