A number of individuals are lifeless after a tour bus with greater than 50 passengers misplaced management and rolled over on a serious freeway in upstate New York on Friday, state police stated.
The bus was touring again to New York Metropolis from Niagara Falls, police stated. It was going eastbound on the New York State Thruway close to Pembroke, round 30 miles northeast of Buffalo and 40 miles southeast of Niagara Falls.
“For unknown reasons, the vehicle lost control, went into the median, over-corrected and ended up in the ditch” on the aspect of the highway, state Trooper James O’Callaghan stated. The bus was going full pace, however didn’t hit every other automobile, he stated.
There have been “multiple fatalities, multiple entrapments and multiple injuries,” O’Callaghan stated. No less than one baby was believed to be among the many fatalities, he stated.
The bus was carrying 52 folks, together with the motive force, in accordance with a passenger manifest supplied to police by the bus firm. The whole variety of deaths and accidents was nonetheless being decided, O’Callaghan stated.
First responders work to rescue victims on the scene of a tour bus that crashed and rolled over on the New York State Thruway close to Pembroke, New York, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025.
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The Erie County Medical Heart, a stage 1 grownup trauma heart, stated it had acquired 16 sufferers from the crash scene.
Mercy Flight, a nonprofit emergency air medical transport supplier, stated it had taken 4 sufferers by air to hospitals and can be transporting at the very least two extra.
The nationalities of most people on the bus have been Indian, Chinese language and Philippine, O’Callaghan stated.
The New York State Thruway was closed in each instructions between exits 48A and 49 as a result of crash.
“Please avoid all local roads near the scene as traffic is being diverted off of the Thruway (Interstate 90) in both directions,” Erie County Govt Mark Poloncarz stated on social media.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stated she had been briefed on “the tragic tour bus accident” on the thruway.
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