{"id":169931,"date":"2025-08-23T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169931\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:59:09","slug":"5-victims-of-deadly-upstate-ny-bus-crash-identified-including-columbia-student-several-nj-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169931\/","title":{"rendered":"5 victims of deadly upstate NY bus crash identified \u2014 including Columbia student, several NJ residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five victims\u00a0killed in a<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/22\/us-news\/tour-bus-crash-causes-several-deaths-and-injuries-on-the-new-york-thruway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0tour bus crash in western New York<\/a>\u00a0included a Columbia University student from China, three New Jersey residents and a person from India,\u00a0authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Xie Hongzhuo, 22, of Beijing, China; Zhang Xiaolan, 55, of Jersey City; Jian Mingli, 56, also of Jersey City; Pinki Changrani, 60, of East Brunswick, New Jersey; and Shankar Kumar Jha, 65, of Madhu Bani, India, were killed\u00a0in the Friday incident, state police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened near Exit 48A east on I-90 around 12:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A crash on Friday involving a tour bus on I-90 in upstate New York has killed and injured multiple people. WKBW TV | Buffalo, NY<\/p>\n<p>The bus was returning to New York City from Niagara Falls when it crashed. AP<\/p>\n<p>The driver for the Staten Island bus company M &amp; Y Tour Inc. was taking 54\u00a0people\u00a0from Niagara Falls to New York City when he got distracted,\u00a0causing the vehicle to swerve and roll over in a ditch, New York State Police said.<\/p>\n<p>M &amp; Y Tour Inc. failed a fifth of vehicle inspections in the past two years, federal records show.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The company had a \u201csatisfactory\u201d safety rating from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in 2024,\u00a0despite failing nine inspections out of 43 in the two prior years, the agency\u2019s records show. Almost all of the company\u2019s drivers\u00a0passed background checks, the\u00a0records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several medical choppers were used to airlift patients to hospitals. AP<\/p>\n<p>The company operates nine vehicles with 20 drivers.<\/p>\n<p>M &amp; Y Tour was fined $15,000 in 2019 by the state Department of Environmental Conservation for generating hazardous waste at a Brooklyn property without properly storing or managing it, according to a report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The business was ordered to clean up the area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/wben\/news\/local\/the-tour-bus-company-has-previous-violations-in-nys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to WBEN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Dewen Su didn\u2019t immediately respond to messages seeking comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The five victims\u00a0killed in a\u00a0tour bus crash in western New York\u00a0included a Columbia University student from China, three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,96321,96322,23762,5248,405,403,5226,5225,86829,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-169931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-buffalo-new-york","10":"tag-bus-accidents","11":"tag-crashes","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-niagara-falls","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115079858815200418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169931","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=169931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}