One person is dead and nine others injured after a dramatic crash involving a TTC bus which collided with a car before hurtling into a CIBC building on Kipling Ave. north of Rexdale Blvd. about 6 a.m. Sunday, police confirmed.

One occupant of the car that was hit was pronounced dead at the scene, and two others from that vehicle are in hospital in critical condition — one with a head injury and the other with fractures to their extremities, according to Toronto Paramedic Services.

The driver of the bus and six passengers were also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Several of them have now been released.

“It really is quite a shocking scene,” said Sarah Blackley, who stood on a driveway at Westhumber Blvd. She said she’s seen at least seven serious accidents at the intersection in the last 23 years.

“People use (Kipling) like a highway,” she said.

TTC CEO Andy Byford, who arrived on the scene shortly after the crash, said the bus’s black box has been quarantined and will be mined for data by investigators. The box is located in the bus behind the driver.

Toronto police’s collision reconstruction team will be drawing out a forensic map of the area, including debris marks on the road, light standards, and parked cars.

The 96 Wilson bus was travelling east when it collided with a northbound Nissan Altima. The bus also knocked over a pole, hit a parked vehicle and took out a fire hydrant before crashing into the bank.

The number of people who were on the bus will be confirmed once the video footage is reviewed, said Const. Clint Stibbe of Traffic Services.

Byford, who called it “a shocking scene,” said he would be heading from the crash scene to the hospital to see the bus driver and the six passengers, some who walked off the bus and some who were carried.

“If there's ever an incident of this magnitude, I would always want to attend because at the end of the day, I'm accountable for the TTC and also out of compassion and concern for the people both on the bus and in the car,” said Byford, speaking with reporters on scene.

“My primary concern today is the people who were on the bus and in the car,” he said, calling it “an incredibly frightening incident.”

The TTC’s own investigators were also on the scene. Byford said they should know more about the chain of events within a day.

The bus ended up lodged in the front of the bank, nearly half a block east of Kipling, narrowly missing a donut shop.

Chirag Patel, owner of the Country Style at Kipling Ave, and Brookmere Rd., said he was cleaning when he saw the bus enter the plaza, but he could not see the driver at his seat. When the bus made contact with the bank building, Patel saw two or three people fall to the floor and called 911 right away.

"I was thinking he [was going to] hit my restaurant, but luckily he turned the wheel and go at the bank," he said.

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A light standard lay on the ground near the wrecked car in the intersection. There was shattered glass and cracked windows on the bus that was eventually towed away about 9 a.m.