Tour bus rollover on New York state highway leaves 5 dead and many others hurt
Posted on: Aug 23, 2025 01:01 IST | Posted by: Cbc
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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 went into a median and ended up in a ditch travelling eastbound on Interstate 90 near Pembroke, N.Y., about 40 kilometres 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, adding that children were on board.
"The driver is alive and well. We're working with him. We believe we have a good idea of what happened, why the bus lost control," O'Callaghan said without elaborating.
The Mercy Flight air 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.
The New York State Thruway Authority said a lengthy stretch of the roadway had been shut down in both directions and drivers were being urged to avoid the area.
"There was glass all over the road and people's stuff all over the road," Powell Stephens told The Buffalo News after he drove by the crash. "Windows were all shattered."
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on X that she was briefed on the "tragic tour bus accident" and that her office was working with police and local officials.
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