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Irvington, NJ - Nearly a dozen kids and two adults were hurt Thursday morning when a mini-school bus went out of control, crashed into an SUV and then slammed into a building in Irvington, New Jersey.

The bus driver told witnesses and police the brakes failed before she could stop at the busy intersection.

Irvington Township Police Director Musa Malik said the bus ran through a red light.

Surveillance video from a nearby bodega shows the bus sailing through the intersection before striking the building. People can be seen running and scrambling to help the children on board.

“I didn’t speak to her, she just came out of the bus and she was saying, ‘My brakes went off on me,'” Marie Shenouda, the bodega owner who called 911, told Rincon. “I told her, ‘It’s OK. It’s going to be fine.'”

The accident took place around 8:15 a.m. at the intersection of Springfield Avenue and Sanford Avenue.

The bus was coming down Sanford Avenue and slammed into a Toyota Rav 4 that was heading east on Springfield Avenue, police said. The Rav 4 hit a light pole as the bus crashed into the side of Home Liquors on Springfield Avenue.