PHOENIX — A passenger attacked the driver of a Greyhound bus early Thursday as it traveled down an Arizona highway, causing the bus to swerve and throw passengers from their seats before it went off the road, injuring 24 people, authorities said.
The Dallas-bound bus was heading east from Los Angeles on Interstate 10 when it crashed shortly before 2 a.m., about 50 miles west of Phoenix.
‘‘He basically went berserk in the bus and grabbed control of the vehicle,’’ Harquahala Fire District Chief Dan Caudle said of the passenger.
The bus crossed the highway median but came to a stop before entering westbound traffic when other
passengers restrained the
25-year-old California resident.
The bus remained upright, and none of the 24 people taken to hospitals had life-threatening injuries.
The Department of Public Safety identified the attacker as Maquel Donyel Morris, of Los Angeles.
Morris reportedly was hallucinating and was taken to a hospital for a drug-induced condition.