A coach who transported around fifty tourists returning from the Niagara cataracts, including children, overturned Friday on a road in the north of the state of New York, killing five people and dozens of injured.
The majority of the passengers of the vehicle are of Indian, Filipino or Chino origin, state police said. The events took place near Buffalo, near the Canadian border, in the region of the great lakes.
“We believe that the driver was distracted, he lost control,” he adhered “before finishing his career in a ditch, said a police officer in the state of New York, Andre Ray, a priori, dismissing the mechanical failure or a conduct under toxic substances.
Among the many injured in the place, none is no longer in danger of death, said the policeman. Fifty -four people were on the bus during the accident and no child is one of the dead, according to US media.
Six Chinese citizens were on the bus, according to CCTV state television, citing the Chinese consulate in New York. Five of them were slightly injured and a sixth had to be operated.
Mobilized helicopters
“He is a tourist coach who came from Niagara’s cataracts to what we believe we are New York City, with more than 50 passengers on board, women, children too,” said James O’Callaghan, a state police spokesman.
“The coach was circulating east just before Pembroke’s departure” when the driver “lost control, went to the central media (…) and ended in the ditch,” he continued.
The translators have been sent in the place to be able to communicate with injured tourists. The bus driver is alive and “is fine,” according to the police, who interrogated it. An official at the Centro de County Center for AFP, Peter Cutler, reported 21 adult patients transported on the site.
A total of eight helicopters were mobilized to transport some of the injured, according to Margaret Ferrentino, president of Mercy Flight (Rescue Transport), also contacted by AFP. According to the NBC chain, no child is among the dead.
On the site, the images transmitted by the media showed a coach lying on the side of the road, very damaged.
Deplorating in the social network X “a tragic accident”, state governor Kathy Hochul said her services were coordinated “closely with the New York State Police and local officials who work to rescue and provide assistance to all those involved.”
Source: BFM TV
