PEMBROKE, N.Y. — 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 40 kilometers 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, adding that children were on board.
Several ambulances and medical helicopters transported people from the crash. O’Callaghan said most passengers were of Indian, Chinese and Filipino ethnicity, and translators were being brought to the scene.
The bus was traveling eastbound when it went