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The New York State Police has confirmed the number of fatalities following the tour bus crash in upstate New York on Friday, Aug. 22.\n<\/p>\n
In a statement<\/a> released on Friday, Aug. 22, the NYSP said that 54 people \u2014 ranging between ages 1 and 74 \u2014 were on board, and five people were killed. The remaining 49 people were injured and taken to the local hospitals. No one’s identity has been publicly revealed.\n<\/p>\n New York State Trooper James O’Callaghan previously told reporters that a child was one of the fatalities. But\u00a0New York State Police Maj. Andre Ray later confirmed in a press conference<\/a> that no children have been reported as deceased victims. “There were children transported to the hospital,” he confirmed. “I’m unaware of any serious physical injuries to children at this point.”\n<\/p>\n He also said, according to the last update he received, “no one else was in a life-threatening status” and “multiple people were treated and subsequently released already.”\n<\/p>\n Trooper O’Callaghan said that officials believe most of the passengers were not wearing a seatbelt, CNN<\/a> reported. The investigation is still ongoing, and additional details about the victims have not yet been released. However, officials believe most of the individuals on the bus were Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern and Filipino.\n<\/p>\n First responders work to rescue victims at the scene of a tour bus that crashed and rolled over on the New York State Thruway near Pembroke, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n Libby March\/Buffalo News via AP<\/p>\n Buffalo’s Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) held a separate\u00a0news conference<\/a>\u00a0on Friday afternoon. There, doctors said that 24 patients were being treated, with two of them sent to the operating room and several others taken to the trauma ICU. They said that the patients sustained head injuries, extremity fractures and internal injuries.\n<\/p>\n