Man throws object at windshield of moving MTA bus

A man tossed a big brick or rock at the windshield of an MTA bus in Brooklyn early Saturday in an incident the bus driver called attempted murder.

“This guy came out of nowhere,” said bus driver Lapreecia Oquendo. “This man appeared out of the cars and he appeared to lean back to lunge something at the bus. It sounded like a big explosion, a boom.”

Oquendo moved her foot from the accelerator to the brake and stopped the bus.

Then, she called her dispatcher — and became scared that she and her bus would be attacked again.

“I just froze,” she said. “I didn’t know if the guy was coming back. I didn’t know what his intentions were.”

No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred about 1:30 a.m. as Oquendo drove her B42 bus west on Rockaway Parkway near Ave. K in Canarsie.

The bus had two passengers, Oquendo said.

“Anything could have happened,” said Oquendo, 44, a Long Island resident who has driven MTA buses for 19 years.

“I want the person arrested. I’m not going to rest until this person is arrested and charged.”

A motorcyclist was killed after slamming into an SUV in Brooklyn, six blocks from his home, police said Saturday.

Sherman Simpson, 38, was speeding west on Conklin Ave. in Canarsie about 3:45 p.m. Friday when he crashed into the passenger-side door

Oquendo said if she had panicked or counter-steered, she might have hit a parked vehicle or some pedestrians.

“People on the bus could have been killed. People outside the bus could have been killed,” she said. “Everybody’s life was on the line.”

She called the rock hurling a “cowardly act.”

At least, Oquendo said, she was driving a newer MTA bus equipped with outside cameras.

“The cameras are pretty good,” she said.

Because the rockthrower was on the front right side of the bus, there might be a good image of him, she said.

MTA officials said they’ve provided the video to police.

“This individual needs to be caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” said Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Tony Utano. of a 2015 Nissan SUV going north on E. 96th St., cops said.

Medics rushed Simpson to Brookdale University Hospital, but he could not be saved.

The 23-year-old SUV driver remained at the scene and was not immediately charged, police said.