EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — An investigation is underway after an RTA bus and car were involved in an overnight crash.
The crash happened just after 2 a.m. near the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Doan Avenue in East Cleveland.
A spokesperson for RTA told 3News that three people, including the car driver, were taken to the hospital. At this time, it is unknown how many people were on the bus, but officials told 3News that the bus driver was okay.
An RTA spokesperson clarified Saturday that the car crossed over the center line of the road, hit the bus, then hit the True and Living God Apostolic Faith Church building.
The church congregation has been displaced after the wreck, which damaged the building. Angela Carpenter was fighting back tears thinking about what could have been if people were inside the church where she and her husband pastor in East Cleveland.
"Everyone that sits in that path would have been deceased,” Carpenter, who serves as first lady of the True and Living God Apostolic Faith Church where her husband, Robert, is the pastor. "There's no way we would've been able to survive that."
Church neighbors called the Carpenters at 6 a.m. telling them about the crash. However, they had no idea of the severity until they arrived on scene.
"It really just threw everything on the other side of the church," Angela added.
The Carpenters no longer have a building for church service and planning are to resume church service in their living room. Neighboring church pastors and congregations have reached out offering their buildings
Rather focusing on the tragedy, the Carpenters say they are counting their blessings.
"We're all still alive," Angela said. "It could've been another way."
The church has set up a GoFundMe to help recover things that were destroyed.
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