MACON, Ga. (WGXA)-- A city bus on top of an SUV is not the kind of crash you see every day, but something that happens a little more often is drivers running a red light.
That's exactly what dash cam video shows happened before a Macon-Bibb Transit Authority bus drove over another vehicle in July.
According to an accident report from the MTA, the driver of bus 719 says he drove through the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Cherry Street once the light turned green, but in a 35-second video WGXA obtained from the transit authority, the driver can be seen pulling away from the bus stop as the light turns yellow.
By the time he pulls into the intersection the light is already red.
The video aligns with a statement a witness gave to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office about the crash; that the light was red as the bus drove through it and hit the SUV
The bus driver, however, wasn't the only one who ran the light.
A close look at the video reveals, that a log truck, the MTA bus, and the SUV the bus landed on top of all ran the red light.
From an open records request to BSO, WGXA learned there have been 168 crashes in the past two years where one or more drivers ignored a traffic signal or a stop sign in the county. That's one crash every five days.
In a phone call to MTA, WGXA planned to ask transit leaders what their policy on drivers violating traffic laws that put the safety of their riders in jeopardy is, but we were directed to their attorney.
Despite MTA providing a service to the public, attorney Brad Wilson said the transit authority's policies are private and he couldn't answer any questions about the crash or the consequences of it.