Hyde Park Avenue

An SUV driver and a passenger on an MBTA bus were taken to the hospital when the two vehicles collided on Hyde Park Avenue around 5:30 p.m. - the driver with a cut left arm, the passenger with a hand injury, the MBTA says. Two more passengers were taken to the hospital for observation.

According to the MBTA, the SUV pulled out of a driveway in front of the inbound 32 bus, at 1715 Hyde Park Avenue. The left front of the SUV struck the right front of the window. The SUV careened through a chain-link fence and down a two-foot drop near an old factory building; the bus's right front window shattered. T police are continuing to investigate.

State and Boston Police sealed off Hyde Park Avenue on either side of the collision until after the last of the passengers was taken away in an ambulance.

At least one person was taken away in serious condition after a collision between a car and a tree at Hyde Park and Metropolitan avenues shortly after noon.

Police shut the two streets to let accident investigators try to figure out what happened. An Nstar pickup truck at the scene had some damage to its left rear panel. The car came to rest right next to a tree with its bark torn off in front of an auto-repair shop.

One poor guy stood at the intersection, repeatedly calling his wife's cell phone. She was supposed to pick him up right there; he got there to see the remains of the accident, his wife nowhere in sight and her phone going straight to voice mail. A reporter told him she thought the only vehicles involved were the car and the pickup.

At 8:30 this morning, Dave Vittorini tweeted to MBTA General Manager Richard Davey about conditions on the Hyde Park Avenue bus:

operator 70135 on the 32 bus NEVER has the ac on. It's sooo hot. I feel like I need another shower when I get to work.

Six minutes later, Davey replied:

we'll take care of that.

The MBTA reports a plainclothes transit cop arrested two teenagers on charges they etched something on the window of a 32 bus in Hyde Park this afternoon.