{"id":35177,"date":"2025-08-22T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=35177"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:45:09","slug":"multiple-dead-and-injured-after-tour-bus-carrying-52-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=35177","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Dead and Injured After Tour Bus Carrying 52 Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article__primary-video-container_1-0\" class=\"comp article__primary-video-container mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH | Tour bus rolls over after crash on upstate New York highway in 'mass casualties' accident\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2frOPzQepiQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-content_1-0\" class=\"comp article-content mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-page_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-page mntl-block structured-content\" data-sc-sticky-offset=\"90\" data-sc-ad-label-height=\"24\" data-sc-ad-track-spacing=\"100\" data-sc-min-track-height=\"250\" data-sc-max-track-height=\"600\" data-sc-breakpoint=\"50em\" data-sc-load-immediate=\"4\" data-sc-content-positions=\"[1, 1250, 1550, 1950, 2350, 2750, 3150, 3550, 3950]\" data-bind-scroll-on-start=\"true\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-embed mntl-sc-block-universal-embed mntl-sc-block-embed--youtube\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-universal-callout theme-needtoknow\" data-tracking-id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<div class=\"mntl-sc-block-universal-callout__body\">\n<ul>\n<li>Several people are dead after a tour bus with more than 50 people on board crashed in New York State on Friday, Aug. 22<\/li>\n<li>Multiple people were injured, and emergency personnel remain on the scene, police have confirmed<\/li>\n<li>Governor Kathy Hochul said she had been briefed on the &#8220;tragic&#8221; accident<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Emergency responders are at the scene of a &#8220;serious mass casualty&#8221; bus crash in New York, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">On the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 22, a tour bus that had taken visitors to Niagara Falls was on its way back to New York City when it crashed on the eastbound lane of Interstate 90 between exits 48A and 49 in Pembroke, a town less than 30 miles from Buffalo, according to New York State Police. There were 52 people on board, including the driver, according to the manifest reviewed by officials.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201cPreliminary reports indicate the bus, carrying more than 50 passengers, overturned,\u201d a spokesperson from the New York Police tells PEOPLE in a statement. \u201cMultiple individuals have been injured, with several confirmed fatalities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-featuredlink--people-app-promo mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"people-app-promo__left_1-0\" class=\"comp people-app-promo__left mntl-block\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"people-app-promo__text_1-0\" class=\"comp people-app-promo__text mntl-text-block\"><b>Our new app is here!<\/b> Free, fun and full of exclusives. Scan to download now!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201cWe believe there is a child that is a fatality,\u201d New York State Trooper James O&#8217;Callaghan told reporters, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/22\/us\/new-york-state-thruway-crash\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">CNN<\/a> and NBC outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/i-90-closed-in-pembroke-due-to-crash-involving-bus\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">WHEC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Additionally, he confirmed that there were \u201cmultiple entrapments\u201d and \u201cejections,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tour-bus-accident-crash-nys-thruway-new-york-2117917\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">O&#8217;Callaghan said that officials believe most of the passengers were not wearing a seatbelt, CNN reported. Although the investigation is still ongoing and additional details about the victims have not yet been released, officials believe most of the individuals on the bus were Indian, Chinese and Filipino.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">A level-one trauma center in Erie County received seven patients as of 2 p.m., while Mercy Flight, an air medical transport provider, said it had flown four people to hospitals and would be taking at least two more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tour-bus-crash-upstate-new-york-thruway-highway\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Witnesses told authorities that they saw the \u201cbus lose control, enter the median, then cross to the southern shoulder and overturn,\u201d according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-spotlight--mid-circ mntl-sc-block-spotlight--mid-circ mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"midcirc__card-list_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc__card-list mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__title_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__title mntl-text-block\">6 Dead, Including High School Student, Following Accident at Colorado Dairy Farm<\/div>\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__title_2-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__title mntl-text-block\">Veteran Rider&#8217;s Cause of Death Revealed 9 Months After Fatal Horse Accident: &#8216;We Will Never Forget Him&#8217;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">First responders at the scene were joined by helicopters and police.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Following news of the crash, a local official in Erie County, Mark Poloncarz wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/markpoloncarz\/status\/1958948699716878636\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">X<\/a> that part of the thruway was closed \u201cuntil further notice due to the serious mass casualty bus accident in Genesee County just over the Erie County line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.dotdashmeredith.com\/people-news-inline\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she had been \u201cbriefed on the tragic tour bus accident\u201d in a statement on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovKathyHochul\/status\/1958944974000582887\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\u201cMy team is coordinating closely with @nyspolice and local officials who are working to rescue and provide assistance to everyone involved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_34-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people are dead after a tour bus with more than 50 people on board crashed in New York State on Friday, Aug. 22 Multiple people were injured, and emergency &hellip; 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