{"id":903160,"date":"2026-06-30T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/903160\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:44:20","slug":"lie-crash-kills-two-injures-20-after-bus-slams-into-multiple-cars-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/903160\/","title":{"rendered":"LIE crash kills two, injures 20 after bus slams into multiple cars in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead, and 20 are injured after a bus crash on the Long Island Expressway in Queens, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal accident happened around 11:45 p.m. Monday near the Greenpoint Avenue exit.<\/p>\n<p>A coach bus was heading westbound near Greenpoint Avenue when it slammed into a vehicle, which then struck another car in front of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The initial impact caused the bus to flip over the central median into oncoming traffic. It then struck two other vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the bus and a male passenger were killed on impact. Twenty others were hurt, including three critically, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lie-crash-pic.png#.png\" alt=\"lie-crash-pic.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Two cars were severely damaged after a bus flipped over and crushed them on the Long Island Expressway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 fire and EMS workers responded to the crash that shut down the highway in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic remained at a complete standstill Monday night. Cars stretched back as far as the eye could see as first responders evaluated the wreckage and rushed those injured to local hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lie-multiple-fatal-acci-wcbsi9xy-hi-res-still-00-00-0906.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lie-multiple-fatal-acci-wcbsi9xy-hi-res-still-00-00-0906.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A bus crash on the LIE snarled traffic Monday night near the Greenpoint Avenue exit in Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Drivers were seen wandering out of their cars, on their phones, trying to figure out an exit plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, they were directed to reverse and get off through an on-ramp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The road reopened at 50th Street just after 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. Emergency officials say drivers should still expect residual delays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead, and 20 are injured after a bus crash on the Long Island Expressway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":903161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[22876,51,6084,324940,50,5257,4413,52],"class_list":["post-903160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-greenpoint","tag-headlines","tag-long-island","tag-long-island-expressway","tag-news","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116839363077606871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903160","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=903160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}