NEW YORK: The driver of a New York City bus that plunged off a bridge blamed the dramatic crash on mechanical failure, saying Saturday that the tandem vehicle “just took off” as he slowed into a turn.

Everton Beccan, 55, disputed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) assertion a day earlier that he had refused to submit to a drug and alcohol test at the hospital.

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