Metro

Two seriously injured in Midtown bus accident

Two Spanish tourists who were supposed to be heading home Tuesday were mowed down by a private charter bus as it turned a corner in Hell’s Kitchen, officials said.

The women, an aunt and her niece getting an early start to what was supposed to be their last full day of vacation in New York on Monday, were struck by the bus as they crossed West 47th Street at 10th Avenue, with one of the victims being pinned under the bus’ wheel.

“Help us! Help us!’’ the bloodied 50-year-old victim shouted as her 62-year-old aunt lay under the bus’ driver-side front wheel, her right leg badly mangled.

The older woman is in serious condition at Bellevue; doctors are still determining whether her leg can be saved.

Her niece was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

The driver had just dropped off his passengers at the Port Authority Terminal after a roughly two-hour trip from Easton, Pa., and was headed to a parking lot.

Cops said the driver, who apparently had the light, will face no criminal charges.

Cellphone video shot moments after the accidents shows one woman writhing under the wheel, a pool of blood beneath her, and the distraught driver hovering above her.

A few feet away is the other bloodied victim, pleading for help, with the contents of her purse sprawled across the street.

One witness, Ali Alghiit, a deli clerk who shot the video as he sprinted over from a nearby sandwich shop, can be heard telling the woman that an ambulance was on the way.

“I was coming from over there,” Alghiit said later, pointing to his store. “I saw it. The lady she grabbed my hand and said, ‘Help us.’ I was like, ‘I can’t do nothing for you. I just called the ambulance.’ ”

Ruth Martinez, 55, was on her way to work at a maid service when she heard the women’s screams.

“I didn’t take it seriously,” Martinez said. “But when I went downstairs to look I saw a woman and she was pinned underneath the bus. There was another one and her foot was bleeding and everything and I felt bad. I had a green coat with me so I covered her with it. I went over to her to try and console her.”

The distraught driver remained holed up in the bus for hours, making calls on his cellphone and dropping his face in his hands.

Hours later, the bus was removed by another driver.