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BUFFALO, N.Y. (NewsNation, WIVB) — Several radical died successful a clang involving a autobus connected I-90 adjacent Pembroke, New York, connected Friday afternoon, according to New York State Police.
Police said astatine slightest 1 kid is among the dead. Several different radical are injured, on aggregate others are trapped nether and astir the bus. Many radical were ejected. Over 50 radical were connected the bus.
The clang occurred astir 12:40 p.m. adjacent Exit 48A eastbound. State constabulary said the autobus mislaid control, went into the median and turned implicit into a ditch connected the broadside of the road. The autobus did not deed immoderate vehicles. Police said the operator of the autobus is alive.
New York State Thruway Authority said I-90 eastbound and westbound is closed betwixt Exit 48A and Exit 49, and asked drivers to question alternate routes.
Several Mercy Flights were requested arsenic good arsenic each Mercy Flight ambulances.
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Peter Cutler, the vice president of communications and interior affairs astatine ECMC, said ECMC received a “mass casualty notification” and is expecting patients to beryllium transported to its infirmary bid center. Cutler besides said physicians are being sent to the clang site.
NewsNation affiliate WIVB has heard reports of immoderate non-injured radical being taken to the Indian Falls Fire Station successful East Pembroke. Kaleida Health said Oishei Children’s Hospital is receiving 1 patient.
WIVB spoke to a witnesser who said determination were 2 cranes astatine the country for the bus.
According to New York State Police, the bus was coming from Niagara Falls and was believed to beryllium heading to New York City with implicit 50 passengers, including children.
Troopers said the autobus was heading eastbound earlier the exit, and it mislaid control, went into the median, overcorrected, and ended up successful the ditch. Multiple radical are dead, aggregate entrapments, and aggregate injuries.
Police said astir of the passengers did not person their seatbelts on, resulting successful galore ejections.
Many of the nationalities are Indian, Chinese and Philippine.
As of 1:30 p.m., drivers were being sent disconnected the road astatine Exit 48A.
