Multiple Passengers Are Killed After Bus Crashes in Western New York
At least one child was among those killed when a tour bus crashed about 30 miles east of Buffalo, officials said. Part of the New York State Thruway was shut down.
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The crash occurred when the driver of the bus, which was traveling at “full speed,” lost control, a spokesman for the state police said.Credit...Libby March/Buffalo News, via Associated Press
주 경찰 대변인은 버스 운전자가 "최고 속도"로 주행하던 중 통제력을 잃으면서 사고가 발생했다고 밝혔습니다.
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By Liam Stack
Aug. 22, 2025Updated 5:00 p.m. ET
A tour bus traveling from Niagara Falls to New York City crashed on a highway outside Buffalo on Friday, killing multiple passengers, including at least one child, and leaving some people trapped beneath the vehicle, officials said.
당국에 따르면 금요일에 나이아가라 폭포에서 뉴욕으로 가는 관광 버스가 버팔로 외곽 고속도로에서 추락해 최소 한 명의 어린이를 포함한 여러 승객이 사망하고 몇몇 사람이 차량 아래에 갇혔다고 합니다.
The crash occurred on the New York State Thruway about 30 miles east of Buffalo, when the driver of the bus lost control of the vehicle as it traveled at “full speed,” said Trooper James O’Callaghan, a spokesman for the State Police.
뉴욕주 경찰 대변인인 제임스 오칼라한 경찰관은 버스가 "최고 속도"로 주행하던 중 운전자가 차량 조종을 잃어 사고가 발생했다고 밝혔습니다. 사고는 버팔로에서 동쪽으로 약 30마일 떨어진 뉴욕주 스루웨이에서 발생했습니다.
Every passenger on the bus had at least some sort of “cut, bruise or abrasion as an injury,” he said. The State Police said the bus had originally been chartered in New York City, and that a manifest provided by the bus company said that 52 people, including the driver, were on the bus when it crashed.
Trooper O’Callaghan said most of the passengers were not wearing seatbelts, and that many had been ejected from the vehicle when it crashed. He said that the bus was “extremely damaged” but that the driver was “alive and well.”
그는 버스에 탑승한 모든 승객이 최소한 어떤 형태로든 "베인 상처, 멍, 또는 찰과상"을 입었다고 말했습니다. 주 경찰은 해당 버스가 원래 뉴욕시에서 전세로 운행되었으며, 버스 회사가 제공한 승객 명부에 따르면 사고 당시 버스에는 운전사를 포함해 52명이 탑승해 있었다고 밝혔습니다.
오캘러헌 경찰관은 승객 대부분이 안전벨트를 착용하지 않았으며, 충돌 당시 많은 승객이 차량 밖으로 튕겨져 나갔다고 밝혔습니다. 그는 버스가 "심각하게 손상"되었지만 운전자는 "살아있고 건강하다"고 말했습니다.
The fatalities include at least one child, but multiple passengers remained unaccounted for, Trooper O’Callaghan said. The bus was the only vehicle involved in the crash, he said.
오칼라한 경찰관은 사망자 중 최소 한 명은 어린이였지만, 여러 승객은 실종 상태라고 밝혔습니다. 그는 버스가 사고에 연루된 유일한 차량이었다고 덧붙였습니다
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Rescue personnel work the scene of a tour bus that crashed and rolled over on the New York State Thruway near Pembroke on Friday.Credit...Libby March/Buffalo News, via Associated Press
The seriousness of the crash was clear from the flashing red and yellow lights of the more than three dozen emergency vehicles lining both sides of the highway as the rescue operation continued.
At around 3 p.m., several firefighters set up a black tarp to shield one side of the bus from public view. Reporters and other onlookers were kept hundreds of feet away.
Trooper O’Callaghan said that the driver had lost control of the bus for “unknown reasons,” and had then gone “into the median, over corrected and ended up in the ditch.”
“The bus did roll, there were multiple ejections, there are multiple people trapped and there are multiple fatalities,” he said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement on X that she had been “briefed on the tragic tour bus accident” and that her office was “coordinating closely” with the State Police and other agencies that were responding to the crash.
Margaret Ferrentino, the president of Mercy Flight, which provides emergency air transport to hospitals, said the organization’s helicopters had made multiple trips from the crash site to local medical centers.
By 2 p.m., helicopters had taken two injured children to Oishei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo, one adult to Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, and another adult to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
“I think we will be busy for a while here,” Ms. Ferrentino said. “It is a multiagency response, both air and ground.” She added: “I pray for the victims and for the safety of the responders.”
Mark Sommer contributed reporting.
This is a developing story and will be updated.