'It was just a real hellish scene': Mercy Flight describes response to tour bus crash on Thruway

Around 12:20 p.m. Friday, Scott Wooton sat in a meeting with other Mercy Flight leaders to conduct a policy review.

All of a sudden, their phones lit up. A tour bus had rolled over on the Thruway in Genesee County. Wooton and other administrators hoped it wouldn’t be that bad, wanting to believe that perhaps the bus wasn’t moving at a high rate of speed or that everyone inside was buckled up.