A doting husband helplessly watched as a private bus struck and killed his wife this morning in a grisly accident in Brooklyn, authorities said.
Lorraine Ferguson, 48, was waiting for the BM2 with her husband shortly before 7:15 a.m. in Canarsie on Avenue K and East 105th Street.
The two had been staying in their car to stay warm, when she saw the bus coming about a block away.
Her husband told the Post that she began to cross the street to the stop when he watched a private bus blow through a stop sign, and run her over. She died almost immediately, the man said.
Neighbors said the woman’s husband Michael Ferguson, 55, began screaming “Oh my God, oh my God, somebody help!”
Police say no criminality is suspected and the driver stayed on the scene, but the investigation is ongoing.
“I saw the woman under the bus. Her head was smashed,” said Tanzania Martin, 22. “She was totally gone. The bus driver never came out. I had to go in and ask, are you okay? He said yes.”
The bus was carrying two handicapped children, who were not injured, and placed on a different bus.
“Had he stopped for one second, my wife would still be alive,” Ferguson said . “My wife didn’t have a chance.”
The Caribbean couple, originally from Jamaica, lived a few blocks from the accident. The couple had been together for 22 years and had two sons.
Ferguson had worked as a secretary for New York Life.
Their son Anthony, 30, is in the army and stationed in Oklahoma. They also have a 21-year-old son named Matthew.
“She was a loving mother, just an all-around good, caring person,” said Anthony Bert, 39, a family friend.
The couple’s home was flooded during Hurricane Sandy, and they were repairing the damage, according to Ferguson. He said that he rescued their neighbor during the storm as she drowning in her basement.
“I saved a life during Sandy, and now my wife was taken from me,” he said. “We had to rescue her, or she would’ve drowned.”
He added that his wife loved to dance and was a happy person.
“She always smiled,” he said.
Rides Unlimited, which is based in Islandia, Long Island, owned the bus. The company provides transportation for the disabled.
The bus was not serving a city school, according to a DOE spokeswoman.