A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people on board crashed and rolled on Interstate 90 near Pembroke, killing five passengers and injuring many others. The bus entered the median and ended in a ditch, with windows shattered and multiple people ejected; children were among those aboard. Most passengers were of Indian, Chinese and Filipino ethnicity. Mercy Flight and other helicopter services airlifted victims; hospitals evaluated or treated more than 40 people with injuries from head trauma to broken arms and legs. Authorities said the driver survived and seat belt nonuse likely contributed to ejections.
A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people on board crashed and rolled Friday on an interstate highway, killing five passengers and injuring many others, authorities said. The bus apparently lost control on Interstate 90 near Pembroke, about 25 miles east of Buffalo. People inside were ejected as the windows shattered. "At this time we have multiple fatalities, multiple entrapments and multiple injuries," said Trooper James O'Callaghan, a spokesperson for the New York State Police,
The Mercy Flight medical transport service said its three helicopters and three more from other services transported people from the crash site. Hospitals in the region said they evaluated or treated more than 40 people. Injuries ranged from head trauma to broken arms and legs. Two people who needed surgery at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo were expected to recover, said Dr. Jeffrey Brewer, chief of surgery.
"It's a full-size tour bus. Heavy amount of damage," O'Callaghan said. "Most people I'm assuming on the bus did not have a seat belt on, that is the reason why we have so many ejected people on this bus." In response to a bus crash in New York in 2023, a state law requires seat belt use on charter buses built on or after Nov. 28, 2016. The age of the bus in Friday's crash wasn't immediately known.
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