Six injured after bus hits cruise ship passengers at Port Everglades

PORT EVERGLADES -- A Greyhound bus slammed into a group of passengers fresh from an Caribbean cruise as they waited to board a bus at Port Everglades Sunday morning, sheriff's officials said.

Six people were transported to Broward General Medical Center with injuries that were not life threatening.

The accident occurred at around 10:40 a.m. at the port's 19th berth at 2019 Eller Drive.

Lindsay McGrath, 23, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, had just spent eight days traveling with Carnival Cruise Lines to San Juan, St. Thomas, Antigua, Tortula and the Bahamas with her parents, siblings, cousins, aunt and uncle. The group of ten, tanned and rested from their vacation, disembarked from the cruiseliner Sunday morning. They were waiting by their luggage to board a bus to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport when the Greyhound lurched toward them, hitting a concrete post first.

"It was two seconds. If it weren't for that [post], I'd be dead," said McGrath as she sat in a wheel chair, right leg raised, at the emergency room of Broward General Medical Center. She was waiting to be treated and said she had no feeling in her right leg......