overturned<\/a> on Interstate 90 near Buffalo on Friday, police said.The deceased were identified as Shankar Kumar Jha, 65, from Bihar; Pinki Changrani, 60, of East Brunswick, New Jersey; Xie Hongzhuo, 22, of Beijing, China; Zhang Xiaolan, 55, of Jersey City, New Jersey; and Jian Mingli, 56, also of Jersey City.According to New York State Police, the crash occurred in Pembroke around 12.22 pm local time when the bus lost control, veered into the median, over-corrected, and rolled off the south embankment. \u201cThe cause of the collision is still under investigation. However, mechanical failure as well as operator impairment have been ruled out at this time,\u201d said State Police Major Andre Ray. \u201cThe operator has been cooperative and with the investigation still underway. No charges have been filed at this point.\u201dThe bus, operated by Staten Island-based M&Y Tour Inc., was carrying passengers aged between 1 and 74, most of them Indian, Chinese or Filipino. Trooper James O\u2019Callaghan said the vehicle was \u201cextremely damaged\u201d and that every passenger sustained some form of \u201ccut, bruise or abrasion as an injury.\u201d Multiple people were thrown from the bus during the crash.Ray said five passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, while several others remain hospitalised though none are in life-threatening condition. A child was initially thought to be among the dead, but that was later found to be incorrect.The accident forced the closure of the New York State Thruway for several hours. The westbound lanes reopened around 5 pm, while the eastbound lanes were cleared at about 8.30 pm, nearly eight hours after the crash.Records show that M&Y Tour Inc. had a \u201csatisfactory\u201d safety rating from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in 2024, although it failed nine inspections out of 43 in the past two years. In 2019, the company was fined USD 15,000 by the state Department of Environmental Conservation for mishandling hazardous waste at a Brooklyn property.New York governor Kathy Hochul expressed condolences and said she had been briefed on \u201cthe tragic tour bus accident\u201d on the Thruway. \u201cMy team is coordinating closely with @nyspolice and local officials who are working to rescue and provide assistance to everyone involved,\u201d she posted on X.<\/p>\nSurvivors recount harrowing ordeal<\/p>\n
Some survivors described scenes of chaos and fear as the bus overturned. Richard Robles, 38, a Filipino national living in Qatar, said there was \u201cso much blood. So much wounds.\u201d Speaking from his hotel in Amherst, New York, he recalled, \u201cMy mindset was to get off the bus.\u201dRobles was travelling with a friend who sustained a head injury. He himself suffered only minor wounds. He said many passengers were pinned under the bus, while others lay bloodied on the ground.Another survivor, a graduate student who identified herself only as Aria, said she had been trapped under the overturned bus for nearly an hour. \u201cI was totally buried under the whole car,\u201d she said. Emergency workers eventually pulled her free and airlifted her to a hospital. \u201cThey had so many people, volunteers and 911 police \u2014 together they helped to dig me out.\u201dAria, who had recently moved to New York City for her studies, said she had taken the tour as a short vacation before her orientation. She recalled closing her eyes as the bus veered out of control. \u201cWhen I was buried, I think I was very calm because I wanted to rescue myself. That was my priority at that time,\u201d she said.On Saturday afternoon, several survivors gathered in the lobby of a Marriott hotel in Amherst, some with casts, bandages and visible bruises. Robles said they were now trying to arrange their journey back to New York City. When asked how they would travel, he replied without hesitation, \u201cTrain or airplane.\u201d(With inputs from agencies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shankar Jha from India was among those killed in NYC bus crash. At least five people, including an…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,97659,97660,96430,97663,405,97656,403,97661,5226,5225,97658,5228,5227,97662,97657,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-170885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fatal-bus-crash","10":"tag-indian-national-among-victims","11":"tag-my-tour-inc","12":"tag-multi-vehicle-accident","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-bus-crash","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-state-thruway-accident","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-niagara-falls-trip","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-survivors-recount-ordeal","23":"tag-tour-bus-overturns","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115081949086821930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170885","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=170885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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