{"id":365520,"date":"2025-08-22T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365520\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:36:13","slug":"multiple-people-killed-after-tour-bus-returning-to-new-york-city-from-niagara-falls-crashes-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365520\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people killed after tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls crashes | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls has crashed on a major road, killing and injuring multiple people.<\/p>\n

The bus, with more than 50 passengers on board, crashed and rolled on Interstate 90 near Pembroke, about 30 miles (48km) east of Buffalo, in New York State.<\/p>\n

“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. He added that authorities believe one child was among those killed.<\/p>\n

Several people inside were thrown from the bus as the windows shattered, while some passengers were still trapped in the wreckage.<\/p>\n

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\n Some passengers remain trapped in the wreckage of the bus. Pic: Buffalo News\/AP<\/p>\n

Mr O’Callahan said most people on the bus were Indian, Chinese, and Filipino, and translators were being brought to the scene. The driver survived and is cooperating with the police.<\/p>\n

He added, “It’s a full-size tour bus. Heavy amount of damage. 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.”<\/p>\n

The Mercy Flight air medical transport service said its three helicopters were transporting people from the crash site to area hospitals.<\/p>\n

Erie County Medical Centre in Buffalo said it had at least eight patients.<\/p>\n

More helicopters and ambulances were being called to the scene, according to Mercy Flight president Margaret Ferrentino.<\/p>\n

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“It’s a very active scene,” she said. “At this time we’re praying for the victims.”<\/p>\n

O’Callaghan said the driver, who survived the accident, lost control while the bus was at full speed, causing it to flip when he tried to correct course.<\/p>\n

The highway has been closed in both directions, causing massive traffic delays at the onset of one of the last weekends of the summer vacation season.<\/p>\n

The falls, which are on the US-Canada border, are a major tourist attraction.<\/p>\n

More than nine million visitors explore Niagara Falls State Park annually, according to the official website for the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls has crashed on a major road, killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-365520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115074340354205506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}