PEMBROKE, N.Y. (AP) — A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 51 passengers crashed and rolled Friday on an interstate highway, killing and injuring multiple people, police said.
The bus apparently lost control on I-90 near Pembroke, about 25 miles east of Buffalo. People inside were ejected as the windows shattered.
“At this time we have multiple fatalities, multiple entrapments and multiple injuries,” said Trooper James O’Callaghan, a spokesperson for the New York State Police.
Several ambulances and medical helicopters transported people from the crash. O’Callaghan said most passengers were Indian, Chinese and Filipino, and translators were being brought to the scene.
The bus was traveling eastbound when it went into the median and then ended up in a ditch on t