A community college bus carrying the school’s baseball team crashed and overturned in a ditch in rural Iowa on Wednesday, authorities said, killing one person and injuring all the other 32 occupants.
The 11 a.m. crash involved the Iowa Lakes Community College bus and no other vehicles, the Iowa State Patrol said in a statement. It occurred on a highway near Twin Lakes, about 110 miles northwest of Des Moines.
The name of the deceased victim was not immediately released. Iowa State Patrol Trooper Paul Gardner confirmed to CBS News that the other 32 occupants aboard the bus were hurt.
Three people were airlifted to trauma hospitals in Des Moines, said Bruce Musgrave, director of Calhoun County Emergency Medical Services, and others were taken by ambulance to four hospitals in the area.
KTIV-TV reported that the college’s baseball team was on board.
A man will receive millions of dollars after losing part of his leg due to a crash with a Metro Transit bus in Minneapolis more than two years ago.
Court documents accuse the driver of negligence, saying he “violated Metro Transit guidelines by departing from the designated bus stop when it was unsafe to do so.” The driver and the Metropolitan Council were named as defendants in the case.
The crash happened around 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 18, 2023, at East Lake Street and South Third Avenue. The victim’s attorneys say the man was trying to board a bus when the driver closed the doors and pulled away from the curb. He then tried to get the driver’s attention by tapping on the side of the bus, but he was knocked down, according to his legal team.
At the time, Metro Transit police said the victim was in stable condition at Hennepin County Medical Center, and an investigation was underway. However, attorneys say the man’s injuries ended up being so severe that his left leg was amputated below the knee. His injuries included multiple fractures to his leg, ankle and foot.
Although a jury initially awarded the victim more than $5.3 million, jurors decided he was also partially negligent in the crash and lowered his total by 20%. The victim will instead receive over $4.26 million, according to a judge’s order.
A spokesperson for Metro Transit says it is still reviewing the findings, and it generally doesn’t give public comment on ongoing legal proceedings.
The driver of a Montgomery County school bus struck and killed an 11-year-old bicyclist in the Aspen Hill area of Maryland.
Police vehicles surround a Montgomery County school bus that struck and killed an 11-year-old girl on Thursday.
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The scene at Russett Road and Bauer Drive near Earle B. Wood Middle School where a young girl was killed after being struck by a school bus.
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A Montgomery County school bus struck and killed an 11-year-old bicyclist in the Aspen Hill neighborhood of Maryland.
The crash happened just after 3:10 p.m. Thursday at Russett Road and Bauer Drive near Earle B. Wood Middle School.
Police said in a release that when they arrived on the scene, 11-year-old Summer Lim was found near the rear of the bus. At the time of the crash, the bus was traveling eastbound on Bauer Drive and was turning right onto southbound Russett Road, according to police. Lim was also traveling eastbound on Bauer Drive when she was hit, police said.
Shiera Goff, the public information officer for Montgomery County police, said at a news conference on Thursday afternoon that the 11-year-old girl lived in the area.
The bus was taking kids home from Earle B. Wood Middle School, where Lim was a student.
“Wearesodeeplysaddenedbythisnews,exponentiallysaddened. Onbehalfoftheschoolsystem,Iwanttoexpressourdeepestcondolencestothestudents,family,friends,teachersandclassmates.Nowordscantrulycapturethepainthatourschoolcommunityisfeelingatthistime.Thisiseveryparent’sworstnightmareandeveryeducatorsgreatestfear,” Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Taylor said.
The bus driver, whose identity was not made public, was taken in to speak to the department’s crisis team. No charges will be filed until an investigation has been completed, Goff said.
Goff said the bus was full of children who witnessed the crash, but no additional injuries were reported.
Counseling and other services will be made available to the students. A second bus transferred the students to a reunification location with their guardians.
“Ourfocusrightnowisonsupportingthefamily,ourschoolcommunitythatishurting,andourstaff,” Taylor said.
Taylor said the school system will be evaluating “walk zones” in the region to determine where students can safely walk and “arrivetoschoolsafelyandgethomesafelyeveryday.”
An investigation into the collision is being conducted by the Collision Reconstruction Unit, and police said it could take several weeks to be completed.
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A crash involving a school bus north of the Twin Cities on Tuesday morning has resulted in injuries, authorities said.
The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office did not say how many were injured or how severe the injuries were. The crash occurred at 175th Avenue and Roanoke Street in Andover, Minnesota.
No other details about the crash were immediately available.
Five students and a driver are recovering after two school buses collided in Oakland Township, Minnesota, Monday afternoon, according to the Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to the crash at the intersection of 890th Avenue and 170th Street at 3:59 p.m. Investigators say a Glenville-Emmons school bus was crossing 890th Avenue when it was rear-ended by an Austin school bus.
Officials said six students were on the Glenville bus at the time of the crash. Four of them were taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, and one was taken to the emergency room.
“All are now at home after being treated for minor injuries,” Heidi Venem, superintendent of Glenville Emmons Schools, said in a statement to WCCO.
There were no children on the Austin bus, though the driver, a 34-year-old man, was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the sheriff’s office.
Law enforcement officers are parked next to a school bus in Oakland Township, Minnesota, that collided with another school bus on Sept. 15, 2025.
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The driver of the Glenville bus, a 74-year-old Albert Lea, Minnesota, man, was cited for failing to yield, the sheriff’s office said.
Oakland Township is around 51 miles southwest of Rochester, Minnesota.
A school bus was involved in a crash on a highway in the northern Twin Cities metro Tuesday morning, traffic cameras show.
The crash occurred on Interstate 35W at County Road 10 in New Brighton, Minnesota.
Minnesota Department of Transportation cameras showed the bus colliding with another vehicle that had slowed down due to traffic. Both vehicles then hit the median.
Video showed students standing on the side of the highway after exiting the bus.
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WCCO is working to learn more about the crash. This story will be updated.
The Aliquippa Jr. High School Football Team was involved in a bus crash on Saturday morning.
A parent confirmed to KDKA-TV’s Jessica Riley that the team was on the bus at the time of the crash.
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According to the team’s Facebook page, the team has left the scene as of approximately 11 a.m., and each player is being evaluated.
In total, 28 people were on the bus at the time of the crash. Of the passengers, 25 students were on the bus, and 21 of those students were taken to the hospital. As was the bus driver.
Their conditions are unknown.
Two other adults on the bus at the time were not hurt.
The Aliquippa superintendent said that he is heading to the hospital to check on the students.
The extent of the injuries has not been released.
Gov. Josh Shapiro responds to the crash
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Saturday afternoon in a statement that he had spoken to Aliquippa Mayor Dwan Walker, while offering his administration’s full support as authorities continue to investigate the crash.
“Football brings the Aliquippa community together – and I know those who prepared to cheer on their team today are already stepping in to care for their neighbors and check in on the families affected,” Gov. Shapiro said. “The entire community is in our thoughts today. Please join Lori and me in praying for the team, their parents, their coaches, and everyone rallying behind them.”
Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.
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Multiple people are dead after a tour bus with more than 50 passengers lost control and rolled over on a major highway in western New York, according to police. WIVB reporter Patrick Ryan reports from the scene.
A vacation to Niagara Falls ended in tragedy on Friday as a tour bus with about 50 passengers heading back to New York City crashed into a ditch, killing five people and injuring dozens.Officials believe most of the passengers were not wearing a seat belt, as multiple people were also ejected from the bus, which sustained heavy damage in the incident, said New York State Police spokesperson James O’Callaghan.“We believe there is a child that is a fatality,” he said.And translators are headed to the scene to assist police in the investigation, as most of the passengers were Indian, Chinese or Filipino, he said at a news conference.Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo received 24 patients and 20 are being treated, it confirmed at a Friday afternoon news conference.Video below: NY State Police Trooper James O’ Callaghan discusses bus crashAs the investigation unfolds, it’s not yet clear why the crash took place, O’Callaghan said, but he added authorities have a “good idea” of what caused the bus to roll over after losing control, without offering further details.The bus was driving at full speed and did not hit any other vehicles, but lost control from the median onward, O’Callaghan said.Helicopters, ambulances and law enforcement swarmed the crash site, where the bus was seen on its side with many people gathered around it.A list of the passengers provided by the bus company confirms there were 52 people on board, including the driver, police said in a statement.“Several witnesses observed the bus lose control, enter the median, then cross to the southern shoulder and overturn,” the state police said in a news release.The state’s department of transportation is trying to help people get off the interstate as some remain stranded due to the incident, O’Callaghan said. The state Thruway is currently closed in both directions near the crash site, state police say.“It’s a very volatile scene. We have vehicles going the wrong way on the 90,” he said, describing the area as “highly traveled.”The driver is “alive and well” and working with authorities, O’Callaghan said, and some victims were taken to the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York.New York Gov. Kathy Hochul described the crash as “tragic” and said first responders are “working to rescue and provide assistance to everyone involved” in a post on X.CNN has contacted the U.S. embassies for the Philippines, China and India for comment.
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A vacation to Niagara Falls ended in tragedy on Friday as a tour bus with about 50 passengers heading back to New York City crashed into a ditch, killing five people and injuring dozens.
Officials believe most of the passengers were not wearing a seat belt, as multiple people were also ejected from the bus, which sustained heavy damage in the incident, said New York State Police spokesperson James O’Callaghan.
“We believe there is a child that is a fatality,” he said.
And translators are headed to the scene to assist police in the investigation, as most of the passengers were Indian, Chinese or Filipino, he said at a news conference.
Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo received 24 patients and 20 are being treated, it confirmed at a Friday afternoon news conference.
Video below: NY State Police Trooper James O’ Callaghan discusses bus crash
As the investigation unfolds, it’s not yet clear why the crash took place, O’Callaghan said, but he added authorities have a “good idea” of what caused the bus to roll over after losing control, without offering further details.
The bus was driving at full speed and did not hit any other vehicles, but lost control from the median onward, O’Callaghan said.
Helicopters, ambulances and law enforcement swarmed the crash site, where the bus was seen on its side with many people gathered around it.
A list of the passengers provided by the bus company confirms there were 52 people on board, including the driver, police said in a statement.
“Several witnesses observed the bus lose control, enter the median, then cross to the southern shoulder and overturn,” the state police said in a news release.
The state’s department of transportation is trying to help people get off the interstate as some remain stranded due to the incident, O’Callaghan said. The state Thruway is currently closed in both directions near the crash site, state police say.
“It’s a very volatile scene. We have vehicles going the wrong way on the 90,” he said, describing the area as “highly traveled.”
The driver is “alive and well” and working with authorities, O’Callaghan said, and some victims were taken to the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul described the crash as “tragic” and said first responders are “working to rescue and provide assistance to everyone involved” in a post on X.
CNN has contacted the U.S. embassies for the Philippines, China and India for comment.
A Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus crashed into a home in the city’s Homewood South neighborhood after a police chase involving another vehicle Tuesday afternoon.The homeowner, Dennis Williams, told sister station WTAE that his home is structurally safe, but his front porch which caught the force of the bus is condemned. He was inside his home at the time of the crash but was unharmed.”I was on my second floor in my TV room. I heard a loud crash and bang,” Williams said. “Basically the porch absorbed the energy from the bus crashing into it, and when I looked out of the window, I saw the top of the bus where my porch used to be.”WTAE’s Sky 4 news chopper captured a large, accordion-style bus that had crashed through the front porch of a house near an intersection. PRT said in a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the bus crashed into the home after it was hit by a vehicle fleeing from police. Two people, the driver of the bus and a passenger, were taken to a nearby hospital, PRT said. Those injuries are “not thought to be serious.” About eight passengers were on board at the time of the crash.According to PRT, officers from the Monroeville Police Department were reportedly chasing a vehicle that hit the bus. The bus then went off the road and into the house. Monroeville, a Pittsburgh suburb, is located around 14 miles outside of the city.”I had to come out of my back door, and this is what I was presented with, so it’s been a long tedious day here,” Williams said. Witnesses on the scene told WTAE that police were chasing a vehicle that ran a red light. It then hit the bus before the bus crashed into the home. The suspect who police were pursuing fled the scene. Officials have not yet said what led up to the pursuit.Sources tell WTAE that a Monroeville police officer involved in the chase was also taken to the hospital with a broken leg.
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A Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus crashed into a home in the city’s Homewood South neighborhood after a police chase involving another vehicle Tuesday afternoon.
The homeowner, Dennis Williams, told sister station WTAE that his home is structurally safe, but his front porch which caught the force of the bus is condemned. He was inside his home at the time of the crash but was unharmed.
“I was on my second floor in my TV room. I heard a loud crash and bang,” Williams said. “Basically the porch absorbed the energy from the bus crashing into it, and when I looked out of the window, I saw the top of the bus where my porch used to be.”
WTAE’s Sky 4 news chopper captured a large, accordion-style bus that had crashed through the front porch of a house near an intersection.
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A bus goes into the porch of a Homewood home.
PRT said in a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the bus crashed into the home after it was hit by a vehicle fleeing from police.
Two people, the driver of the bus and a passenger, were taken to a nearby hospital, PRT said. Those injuries are “not thought to be serious.” About eight passengers were on board at the time of the crash.
According to PRT, officers from the Monroeville Police Department were reportedly chasing a vehicle that hit the bus. The bus then went off the road and into the house. Monroeville, a Pittsburgh suburb, is located around 14 miles outside of the city.
“I had to come out of my back door, and this is what I was presented with, so it’s been a long tedious day here,” Williams said.
Witnesses on the scene told WTAE that police were chasing a vehicle that ran a red light. It then hit the bus before the bus crashed into the home.
The suspect who police were pursuing fled the scene. Officials have not yet said what led up to the pursuit.
Sources tell WTAE that a Monroeville police officer involved in the chase was also taken to the hospital with a broken leg.
The man accused of killing at least eight people in a bus crash on a Florida highway told investigators he smoked marijuana oil the night before and was in another accident three days earlier, according to an arrest report. Bryan Maclean Howard has been charged with eight counts of driving under the influence manslaughter after authorities say his pickup truck hit a bus and sent it off the road Tuesday morning.
According to an arrest report from the Florida Highway Patrol, Howard told an investigator he was hanging out with a friend who had a medical marijuana card Monday night and smoked marijuana oil with him. Before Howard went to bed, he said he also took some prescription medications.
On Tuesday, Howard left his parents’ house at around 6:30 a.m. to drive to a methadone clinic in Ocala, Florida, for treatment of a chipped vertebrae in his back, according to the arrest report.
Howard said he was driving carefully because he crashed his mother’s car into a tree three days earlier while trying to avoid an animal that ran in front of him, according to the report.
Howard’s eyes were bloodshot and watery during the interview with the highway patrol and his speech was thick and slurred, according to the report. After Howard was arrested Tuesday afternoon, a breath test found he had a blood alcohol level of 0.000%.
A judge ordered Howard held without bond during a virtual court appearance Wednesday morning. His next court appearance is scheduled for June.
A bus that overturned in a fatal crash near Dunnellon, Florida, is seen May 14, 2024.
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At least 11 people — including 10 University of South Carolina students and a bus driver — were injured when a charter bus crashed in southern Mississippi Friday afternoon on the way to New Orleans for a fraternity formal, according to the university.Video of the aftermath of the crash above“The University of South Carolina was informed tonight of an accident in Mississippi involving a charter bus carrying USC fraternity members and their guests traveling to an event in New Orleans,” the university said in a statement to CNN.The bus was carrying 56 students when it crashed around 3 p.m. on Interstate 10 in Hancock County, according to a news release from the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Nine students were taken by ambulance to a local hospital, while the bus driver and another student were airlifted in critical condition.The driver lost control of the bus after one of its tires blew out, Bay St. Louis police Chief Toby Schwartz told CNN affiliate WLOX.“According to what students said, she stood on that steering wheel with every ounce of energy to keep that steering wheel straight,” Schwartz said of the driver.At one point, the wheels on one side of the bus lifted into the air, causing the bus to lean on one side. When the bus came back down on all wheels, the front windshield shattered and the driver was ejected, according to Schwartz.But the bus kept moving. The bus traveled “out of control” for half a mile on the interstate, Schwartz said.In what Schwartz described as a “heroic action,” a student grabbed ahold of the wheel and regained control of the bus, bringing it to a stop.“Because of the bus driver’s quick actions, and then the students’ quick actions, right now we don’t have any fatalities,” Schwartz said.The crash remains under investigation by Mississippi Highway Patrol.“USC is working closely with local authorities on the scene to obtain updates on our students and to assist in whatever capacity we can,” the university said. “Our thoughts go out to the students involved in the accident and those affected by it.”
At least 11 people — including 10 University of South Carolina students and a bus driver — were injured when a charter bus crashed in southern Mississippi Friday afternoon on the way to New Orleans for a fraternity formal, according to the university.
Video of the aftermath of the crash above
“The University of South Carolina was informed tonight of an accident in Mississippi involving a charter bus carrying USC fraternity members and their guests traveling to an event in New Orleans,” the university said in a statement to CNN.
The bus was carrying 56 students when it crashed around 3 p.m. on Interstate 10 in Hancock County, according to a news release from the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Nine students were taken by ambulance to a local hospital, while the bus driver and another student were airlifted in critical condition.
The driver lost control of the bus after one of its tires blew out, Bay St. Louis police Chief Toby Schwartz told CNN affiliate WLOX.
“According to what students said, she stood on that steering wheel with every ounce of energy to keep that steering wheel straight,” Schwartz said of the driver.
At one point, the wheels on one side of the bus lifted into the air, causing the bus to lean on one side. When the bus came back down on all wheels, the front windshield shattered and the driver was ejected, according to Schwartz.
But the bus kept moving. The bus traveled “out of control” for half a mile on the interstate, Schwartz said.
In what Schwartz described as a “heroic action,” a student grabbed ahold of the wheel and regained control of the bus, bringing it to a stop.
“Because of the bus driver’s quick actions, and then the students’ quick actions, right now we don’t have any fatalities,” Schwartz said.
The crash remains under investigation by Mississippi Highway Patrol.
“USC is working closely with local authorities on the scene to obtain updates on our students and to assist in whatever capacity we can,” the university said. “Our thoughts go out to the students involved in the accident and those affected by it.”
A bus crashed near the Italian city of Venice after falling from an elevated street, killing at least 21 people and injuring 18 others on Tuesday, authorities said.
The bus was carrying foreign tourists, including Ukrainians, Renato Boraso, a Venice city official, said. Boraso said the bus was bringing tourists to a camping site. Italian media reported that German and French tourists were also aboard the bus.
Venice prefect Michele Di Bari said that two children died in the crash in the Mestre suburb of Venice.
Firefighters work on the site of a bus accident on October 03, 2023, in Mestre, near Venice.
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Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the scene of the crash was “apocalyptic” and that he had already declared the “city’s mourning” for the “numerous victims” who were on the bus.
According to local media, the bus fell a few meters before crashing close to Mestre’s railway tracks, where it caught fire. Emergency crews were on the scene. The state police said they were on-site to aid victims and “to investigate.”
“The people in the bus found themselves surrounded by flames,” said Mauro Luongo, commander of the Venice firefighters team. “The scene we found was terrible. It took about one hour to extract some of the bodies.”
Four of the injured were in serious condition following the accident in the Mestre borough, Boraso said.
Un’immane tragedia ha colpito questa sera la nostra comunità. Ho disposto da subito il lutto cittadino, in memoria delle numerose vittime che erano nell’autobus caduto. Una scena apocalittica, non ci sono parole. pic.twitter.com/APnsQoPMkL
The City of Venice on social media confirmed that all the injured had been transported to a nearby hospital and that railway lines had been reactivated.
The Veneto region governor, Luca Zaia, told RAI state television that the cause of the accident was still unclear.
“This is an important tragedy, but it’s difficult to understand how it happened,” he said. “The bus was new and electric, and that street wasn’t particularly problematic.”
Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed her “deepest sorrow” after the crash. “Our thoughts go out to the victims and their family and friends,” she wrote on social media.
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National Transportation Safety Board investigators are working to determine what caused a charter bus carrying a high school marching band to overturn while on a New York interstate Thursday, leaving two adults dead and several students injured. The crashed bus was carrying members of Long Island’s Farmingdale High School marching band to a music camp in Pennsylvania. Errol Barnett has more.
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Police say at least two people are dead and several others are injured after a charter bus carrying high school students crashed just north of New York City. “No one could have foreseen what these 40 students and four adults would experience, but certainly there are families grieving today,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said at a news conference.
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A charter bus carrying a high school marching band went down an embankment and overturned Thursday in Wawayanda, New York, leaving at least two people dead and several more hurt. Ali Bauman has the latest.
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One child is dead and at least 20 others are injured after a crash involving a school bus in Clark County, Ohio, on the district’s first day of school.
The school bus collided with a Honda at around 8:15 a.m. local time, officials said at a news conference. There were 53 people aboard the bus, including the driver.
In a news release, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said the bus was traveling westbound and was struck by a 2010 Honda Odyssey minivan that was traveling eastbound and “went left of center.” The bus “subsequently went off the right side of the roadway and overturned as a result of the crash.”
The Honda was driven by Hermanio Joseph, 35, and a passenger in the car was identified as Roberto Mompremier, 37, officials said. Both men were transported to Springfield Regional Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Dayton Children’s Hospital confirmed to CBS News they received 22 patients from the crash. Some were transferred by ambulance, while others were brought by their parents, the hospital said. In a news release, officials said 22 children were hospitalized, one with serious injuries.
The student who died was ejected from the bus and succumbed to fatal injuries at the scene, officials said.
The bus driver, identified as 68-year-old Alfred E. Collier, suffered minor injuries but was not taken to a hospital, officials said.
Northwestern Local Schools, a district with one elementary school and one middle/high school, said on Facebook there had been a “bus accident on one of (the) elementary routes.”
The crash remains under investigation.
A parent reunification center was established at a local firehouse, the district said. School officials said parents would be contacted if their children had been involved.
Tuesday is the district’s first day of school, according to its website. The school said on Facebook classes will be dismissed at the “usual times,” but warned that bus drop off times are expected “to be off this afternoon.”
“Multiple passengers” were killed in a collision late Sunday night between a charter bus and passenger vehicle on Interstate 81 in Dauphin County in southeast Pennsylvania, state police said.
The bus, carrying 45-50 passengers, flipped on its side and came to rest on the right berm, police said, adding that multiple people were taken to Hershey Medical Center suffering from various injuries.
The Chambers Hill Fire Department was opening up as a reunification center for passengers. The Red Cross was to be there as well.
Dauphin County is home to the state capital, Harrisburg, and Hershey Park.
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Dozens of people were injured in a crash involving a double-decker tour bus and a city bus in Manhattan Thursday evening, officials said.
There was a tangled mess of metal and glass when a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus and a TopView Sightseeing double-decker bus collided just after 7:15 p.m. Eastern time in the Kips Bay neighborhood.
New York City Fire Department officials said 27 people were hospitalized, including the tour bus driver, and about 50 others were examined at the scene. Injuries included fractures, cuts and bruises, the fire department said. None of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.
“We’re all quite fortunate it was not much worse,” FDNY Deputy Chief Paul Hopper said.
Crews had to use “ladders and ropes” to extricate some of the passengers from the buses, FDNY Deputy Chief Kevin Murphy added.
“The impact felt like it was almost an earthquake,” Ishrak Jahan, who was on the city bus, told CBS New York. “The whole bus was rattling and shaking. I heard the lady next to me scream, so I looked up and I saw this bus barreling towards us…I just saw glass everywhere for a second. It was honestly like I was in a movie. And it took a couple of seconds to snap back into reality when everyone started screaming. I saw blood.”
FNDY officials said they were unsure on the circumstances which led up to the collision. However, New York City Transit President Richard Davey blamed the crash on the tour bus.
“This tour bus behind us seemed to have blown a red light and T-boned our bus,” Davey told reporters. “Hit it actually twice, it was going so fast, we think.”
Pillan, who was on the tour bus with his family, told CBS New York that “a lot of people” were “thrown out of their seats. Injured, a lot of injuries. A lot of old people injured.”
Some passengers, like Paulina Rychel, were hit by a wave of glass.
“I heard the boom and then I felt it,” Rychel said.
Firefighters had a challenge taking people off the second deck of the tour bus and going through windows to take people out.
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