A number of persons are lifeless after a tour bus with greater than 50 passengers misplaced management and rolled over on a serious freeway in upstate New York on Friday, state police stated.
The bus was touring again to New York Metropolis from Niagara Falls, police stated. It was going eastbound on the New York State Thruway close to Pembroke, round 30 miles northeast of Buffalo and 40 miles southeast of Niagara Falls.
“For unknown causes, the car misplaced management, went into the median, over-corrected and ended up within the ditch” on the aspect of the street, state Trooper James O’Callaghan stated. The bus was going full velocity, however didn’t hit another car, he stated.
There have been “a number of fatalities, a number of entrapments and a number of accidents,” O’Callaghan stated. At the least one baby was believed to be among the many fatalities, he stated.
The bus was carrying 52 folks, together with the driving force, in keeping with a passenger manifest offered to police by the bus firm. The overall variety of deaths and accidents was nonetheless being decided, O’Callaghan stated.
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The Erie County Medical Heart, a stage 1 grownup trauma heart, stated it had acquired 16 sufferers from the crash scene.
Mercy Flight, a nonprofit emergency air medical transport supplier, stated it had taken 4 sufferers by air to hospitals and could be transporting not less than two extra.
The nationalities of the general public on the bus had been Indian, Chinese language and Philippine, O’Callaghan stated.
The New York State Thruway was closed in each instructions between exits 48A and 49 as a result of crash.
“Please keep away from all native roads close to the scene as site visitors is being diverted off of the Thruway (Interstate 90) in each instructions,” Erie County Government Mark Poloncarz said on social media.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had been briefed on “the tragic tour bus accident” on the thruway.
“My staff is coordinating intently with @nyspolice and native officers who’re working to rescue and supply help to everybody concerned,” she wrote on X.
