This material may not be published, broadcast rewritten or redistributed. A Los Angeles bus driver is hospitalized in fair condition today with a broken nose and collarbone. Police say she was held at gunpoint yesterday as a hijacker forced her to take the bus through the downtown streets until it crashed into a minivan, a delivery truck, and a row of parked cars. The minivan driver was killed. The delivery truck driver and several passengers on the bus suffered minor injuries.
Police say the hijacker was a suspect in an earlier shooting.
They arrested a Los Angeles man after the crash, as he tried to get into a stopped car, and they've booked him for investigation of murder. As for the shooting that started it all, the victim is hospitalized in critical condition. It happened near the offices of the city police union. As police pursued the suspect, he boarded the bus. Police say the driver then did whatever she could to stay alive.