Pedestrian killed when Boyle Heights school bus hit by speeding BMW

The Boyle Heights intersection where a speeding BMW slammed into a school bus and killed a pedestrian Monday is part residential. One elderly woman says the sounds of colliding metal lured her outside to see what was going on.

Be’atriace Haro says she was sitting inside her apartment watching TV when she heard a loud bang – and what sounded like women screaming. She went outside and saw a man lying in the middle of the street and several vehicles piled up. She says a yellow school bus was on its side and a black BMW looked like an accordion.

"I thought there were women inside that car and that they were screaming from the hard impact. I saw it after the point of impact," said Haro in Spanish, "and everything was like that. So it wasn’t women screaming, it was the kids screaming who were on the school bus that tipped over. But that’s how it sounded, like a bunch of women screaming."

Haro says she saw two men jump out of the BMW and run away from the intersection – and a couple of construction workers who went after them.

"She says they ran fast until they caught them," said Haro in Spanish, "grabbed them by the arm and dragged them back over here – to the intersection."

LAPD officials confirm that at least one construction worker handed over the driver and his passenger. Both men are in jail.

They may face homicide charges for their role in the collision. The pedestrian died at the scene.

Forty-four teenagers were on the school bus that was traveling back to Roosevelt High School from a satellite campus. None of them were hurt.

The school bus driver was taken to the hospital in critical condition and was later upgraded to serious.