<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A tour bus returning to </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/usa" rel="" target="_blank" title="New York City"><span>New York City</span></a><span> from Niagara Falls with 52 people has crashed and rolled on an interstate highway, killing and injuring multiple passengers, police said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The bus apparently lost control on Interstate 90 near Pembroke, about 40 kilometres east of Buffalo. People inside were ejected as the windows shattered.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“At this time we have multiple fatalities, multiple entrapments and multiple injuries,” said Trooper James O’Callaghan, a spokesperson for the New York State Police, adding that children were on board.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/fbi-searches-home-of-extrump-national-security-adviser-john-bolton/2288745a-e764-4463-a22a-0b29cfcdef9d" rel="" target="_blank" title="FBI searches home of Trump 'enemy' John Bolton"><strong><span>FBI searches home of Trump 'enemy' John Bolton</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>O’Callaghan said most passengers were of Indian, Chinese and Filipino ethnicity, and translators were being brought to the scene.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The bus was travelling eastbound when it went into the median and ended up in a ditch on the right side of the road, O'Callaghan said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“The driver is alive and well. We’re working with him. We believe we have a good idea of what happened, why the bus lost control," O'Callaghan said without elaborating.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/new-york-tour-bus-crashes-on-highway-killing-multiple-people/ffe6cef9-2515-41f7-8fbd-cba2384e1878" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Mercy Flight air medical transport service said its three helicopters and three more from other services transported people from the crash site to area hospitals.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“It’s a full-size tour bus. Heavy amount of damage," O’Callaghan said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“Most people I’m assuming on the bus did not have a seat belt on, that is the reason why we have so many ejected people on this bus.”</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In response to a bus crash in New York in 2023, a state law requires seat belt use on charter buses built on or after November 28, 2016.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The age of the bus in Friday's crash wasn't immediately known.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The New York State Thruway Authority said a lengthy stretch of the roadway had been shut down in both directions and drivers were being urged to avoid the area.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/israel-gaza-update-gaza-city-in-famine-ipc-confirms/32b3fded-4999-4ea1-ad8d-83c38a4dab52"><strong><span>Grim milestone: Famine confirmed in Gaza City</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“There was glass all over the road and people’s stuff all over the road,” Powell Stephens of Medina told The Buffalo News after he drove by the crash.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“Windows were all shattered.”</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on the social platform X that she was briefed on the "tragic tour bus accident” and that her office was working with police and local officials.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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