WOODBRIDGE — A medical condition was to blame for a school bus driver’s multiple crashes along Main Street, according to police.
No students were on board when driver Joseph Magyar, 69, of Iselin, was driving a Dapper Bus eastbound on Main Street and crashed at 5:25 p.m. Oct. 28, Capt. Roy Hoppock of the Woodbridge Police Department said.
Magyar struck a curb, a speed limit sign, a telephone pole and a guardrail on the corner of Bina Place. He backed up from the guardrail and continued east on Main Street over the Turnpike overpass, and then sideswiped a vehicle traveling west on Main Street.
The driver of that vehicle, a 62-year-old Metuchen woman, suffered minor injuries and was transported to Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge.
From there, the bus struck another telephone pole before coming to rest against a tree near Kilfoyle Avenue, according to Hoppock.
Magyar had to be extricated from the bus and was transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, with numerous fractures. He was listed in critical but stable condition as of the evening of the crash, Hoppock said.
According to Hoppock, an unknown medical condition caused Magyar to crash the bus.
The Woodbridge and Hopelawn fire departments and Woodbridge EMS responded.