NEW YORK, United States, Saturday January 26, 2013 - Law enforcement authorities here say that a doting Jamaican-born husband kissed his wife goodbye, then helplessly watched as a bus ran her over, killing her instantly on Friday.

On a freezing morning, Michael Ferguson, 55, said he did not want his wife, Lorraine, to be cold as she waited a few blocks from her Canarsie, Brooklyn, New York home for an express bus to her job in Manhattan.

He said he drove her closer to the bus stop, and they waited in their car until Lorraine, 47, spotted the bus about a block away.

Ferguson said, when she began to cross the street to go to the bus stop, he watched in horror as the bus ran through a stop sign and smashed into his wife.

“We said goodbye, and we kissed,” Ferguson told reporters. “Had he stopped for one second, my wife would still be alive. My wife didn’t have a chance.”

Witnesses said he began screaming, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Somebody help!”.

Tanzania Martin, 22, said she heard the crash and ran over.

“I saw the woman under the bus. Her head was smashed. She was totally gone. The bus driver never came out. I had to go in and ask, are you OK? He said yes,” she said.

Authorities said the bus was carrying two mentally challenged children. They were not injured and were placed on a different bus.

Ferguson collapsed on the street and began weeping when members of the New York Medical Examiner’s Office pulled his wife’s body out from beneath the bus, authorities said.

Police said while no criminality was suspected and that the driver stayed on the scene, the investigation is ongoing.

But Ferguson said “what he did was criminal, and he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

“He didn’t even have the common decency to get out of the car and see what he hit. I witnessed the whole thing,” he added.

Ferguson said he had rescued a neighbor, during the recent passage of Hurricane Sandy, from drowning in her basement.

“I saved a life during Sandy, and now my wife was taken from me,” he said.