Buffalo<\/a>, resulting in multiple fatalities, injuries, and entrapments, state police spokesperson James O\u2019Callaghan said in a news conference.<\/p>\n\u201cThe bus was traveling eastbound right before the Pembroke exit, and for unknown reasons the vehicle lost control, went into the median, overcorrected, and ended up in the ditch, which would be on the right side of the roadway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Translators were brought to the scene as most passengers on the bus were from India, China, and the Philippines, O\u2019Callaghan said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver is alive and well,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re working with him. We believe we have a good idea of what happened, why the bus lost control.”<\/p>\n
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The cause of the rollover crash is still under investigation, New York State Police said (AP)<\/p>\n
Bystander Powell Stephens told The Buffalo News after driving by the crash, \u201cThere was glass all over the road and people\u2019s stuff all over the road. Windows were all shattered.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crash involved a tractor-trailer, and O\u2019Callaghan confirmed that \u201cthe bus did roll,\u201d but did not reveal the exact reason for the crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a full-size tour bus. Heavy amount of damage,” O\u2019Callaghan said. \u201cMost people, I\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercy Flight and other services used multiple helicopters and ambulances to transport crash victims, with the Erie County Medical Center, a Buffalo hospital, receiving at least eight patients by 2:10 p.m.<\/p>\n
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More than 50 people, most of them from India, China, and the Philippines, were on the tourist bus returning to New York City (AP)<\/p>\n
New York Governor Kathy Hochul stated she was briefed on the \u201ctragic\u201d incident and that her office was coordinating with police and local officials. <\/p>\n
In an X post, she said her office is working with first responders \u201cto rescue and provide assistance to everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
The New York State Thruway Authority closed a significant portion of the highway in both directions, urging drivers to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-167382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115074367770609591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}