The driver of a red sedan involved in a crash with a Seattle bus over the weekend has since been arrested and charged with vehicular homicide. He is accused of driving while intoxicated.

The crash happened Saturday afternoon when the driver of the sedan was going southbound on 5th Avenue. The car hit a King County Metro Bus, which was going eastbound on Battery Street, the Seattle Police Department said in a release.

Once struck, the bus careened off the road, hitting a woman standing outside a building that the bus proceeded to strike. 

The bystanding 28-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene, the 31-year-old sedan-driving man was taken to the hospital in critical condition, and the driver and passengers aboard the bus suffered minor non-life-threatening injuries, the police said. 

There were at least 11 people aboard the bus, including the driver, all of whom were declared stable at the scene, the Seattle Fire Department posted on X.

Following a blood warrant and testing, the driver of the sedan was arrested on a charge of vehicular homicide after police found evidence of possible drug use in the car. He will be taken to jail once he is medically cleared from the hospital, the police said in an update Monday.

“You can tell it’s a pretty significant collision. All of a sudden, he’s slammed into the side of the bus and the bars and loses a couple teeth and has some lacerations on his head and chin and finds himself on the ground,” attorney Chris Davis, representing one of the passengers, told KING-TV.

Seattle police named neither the man accused of driving while intoxicated nor the deceased woman.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.