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Tragic accident in the USA/ Five victims, including a child! Tourists were returning from Niagara Falls to New York
2025-08-23 08:25:54 / BOTA
A tour bus carrying more than 50 people overturned on a highway in upstate New York on Friday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens more, authorities said.
At least one child was among the five dead, according to Officer James O'Callaghan, a spokesman for the New York State Police. He told reporters near the scene that most of the passengers were Asian or of Asian descent, including Chinese, Indians and Filipinos, according to Reuters.
The accident occurred on Interstate 90, part of the New York State Highway System, in Pembroke, New York, about 30 miles east of Buffalo, while the bus was en route from Niagara Falls to New York City.
The National Transportation Safety Board was sending a team to investigate the accident, the agency said.
Many passengers ended up trapped in the wreckage and had to be extricated, while others were thrown from the bus when it rolled onto the highway before ending up in a ditch along the side of the road, O'Callaghan said.
The driver, who survived the accident, lost control while the bus was traveling at “full speed,” he said, causing the vehicle to crash into the median and then overturn. No other vehicles were involved.
The driver was cooperating with investigators, O'Callaghan said, and police were in contact with the bus company, which was not publicly identified.
The bus was carrying 51 passengers, not counting the driver, and every person on board suffered some type of injury, O'Callaghan said.
An online statement from state police said “multiple fatalities” had been confirmed. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on social media platform X that police had confirmed that “five lives were tragically lost.”
After the accident, authorities closed the highway in both directions, causing major traffic delays at the start of one of the last weekends of the summer holiday season.
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