7 people injured in wreck involving MARTA bus, dump truck

Seven people were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a Tuesday morning wreck involving a MARTA bus and a dump truck.

The crash happened just before 9 a.m. at the intersection of Perry Boulevard and Marietta Road in northwest Atlanta.

“The dump truck rear ended the bus,” MARTA spokeswoman Alisa Jackson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an emailed statement.

A bus operator and an operator candidate were among the seven people taken to Grady, Jackson said.

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