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Car crashes into Brisbane bus stop: delays, three injured

Commuters waiting at a Brisbane bus stop were injured after a small sedan crashed into the shelter on Thursday.

Emergency services were called to Upper Roma Street after the car mounted the kerb and careened into the bus shelter just after 2.20pm.

Queensland Ambulance Service medical director Stephen Rashford said the two women at the bus shelter and the man in the car were all taken to hospital.

"We have transported three people from the scene, luckily no one is critically ill, all have been transported to major trauma services," Dr Rashford said.

"There is very extensive damage to the bus shelter.

"The people in the bus shelter have certainly had a lucky escape ... (they) have been treated with soft-tissue injuries and fractures."

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Police are looking into whether the crash was caused by a medical condition suffered by the 72-year-old driver.

The man and a 16-year-old girl were taken to Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and an 85-year-old woman to Princess Alexandra hospital.

The inbound bus lane on Upper Roma Street was closed until 5pm, police said.

Motorists experienced delays at Skew Street, William Jolly Bridge and Grey Street at South Brisbane.