At least 17 injured following Baltimore bus crash, police say

At least 17 people were injured Saturday after a bus collided with two civilian vehicles in Baltimore, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department.

"Fortunately, there were no critical life-threatening injuries at this incident," Baltimore City Fire Department communications director Kevin Cartwright told CNN affiliate WJZ-TV.

Baltimore City Police told CNN the MTA bus collided with a Lexus at North Paca Street at West Mulberry Street in downtown Baltimore Saturday morning. The bus then struck a Nissan and came to a stop resting in a building at 500 West Franklin Street, police said.

Jerimiah Moerke, spokesperson for the Maryland Transit Administration, told CNN the agency's CityLink Blue bus was "involved in a multi-vehicle incident" at around 10.15 a.m.

"We dispatched units to this location, and upon their arrival they did confirm that there was a collision involving an MTA bus that collided into a building," Cartwright said, according to WJZ. "Due to that fact and multiple patients being involved, we established and escalated this to a level one mass casualty incident."

Responders removed the bus driver from the bus lodged into the building. The driver was treated at the scene and transported to a hospital, as were the other 16 injured people, according to Cartwright.

Police said the cause of the crash is unknown at this time.