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A MAN was struck and killed by a bus in Sydney overnight after stepping out of a Uber car which was stopped at a congested intersection.
The 30-year-old man stepped out of a stationary Uber vehicle and into the path of a moving bus on Bathurst St, near Elizabeth St, about 3.15am today.
Two friends of the man were also believed to have been in the car when it had stopped at traffic lights.
He died at the scene.
Sydney City Police Inspector Kerrie Brill said officers had not yet been able to contact the man’s family, who were believed to be overseas.
Inspector Brill said police were still working to determine if any of the drivers were at fault or if alcohol was a factor.
“It all happened rather quickly in terms of the door being opened and the passenger stepping out of the vehicle,†Inspector Brill said.
There weren’t any passengers in the bus at the time.
The N100 Bondi Junction via Kings Cross bus was travelling north on Elizabeth St when the victim stepped out of the passenger side of a red Toyota Corolla and was dragged underneath the oncoming bus.
Emergency services raced to the scene but could not save the severely injured man.
Officers from Sydney City Local Area Command, NSW Fire and Rescue and Police Rescue attended the scene, cordoning off the intersection, establishing a crime scene and taking statements from witnesses.
The devastated bus driver sat propped up against a wall nearby while paramedics treated him for shock.
The driver was taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing.
A group of security guards who witnessed the event stood huddled together giving statements and being checked out by paramedics.
A distressed male witness sat hunched on the wall of Hyde Park helping police with inquiries, while another man sat glassy-eyed in the stairwell of a parked bus across the road.
Partygoers, heading home from local nightspots became horrified onlookers as they made their way past the sobering scene.
One of these traumatised passers-by said bleakly: “We didn’t see what happened. We saw what was left afterwards.â€
“It’s so sad. Such a terrible way to die,†another onlooker said.
Elizabeth St was blocked off between Liverpool St and Park St while the police Crash Investigation Unit examined the scene.