Posted on 08/22/2025 12:38:38 PM PDT by DFG
A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls crashed Friday, killing and injuring multiple people, police said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash on I-90 near Pembroke, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Buffalo.
Photos taken by bystanders at the scene showed a bus rolled over on its side, just off the highway.
“At this time, we have multiple fatalities, multiple entrapments and multiple injuries,” said Trooper James O’Callahan, a spokesperson for the New York State Police.
Several ambulances and medical helicopters transported patients from the crash.
“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. “Windows were all shattered.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on X that she was briefed on “the tragic tour bus accident” and that her office was working with police and local officials.
The Mercy Flight air medical transport service said its three helicopters were transporting people from the crash site to area hospitals.
There was no official word on how many people were injured, though Erie County Medical Center, a Buffalo hospital known as ECMC, said it had at least eight patients by 2:10 p.m.
Three other helicopters from other services were being called to the scene, as well as ambulances from multiple area agencies, Mercy Flight president Margaret Ferrentino said.
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Just returned from there we noted all the tour busses.
The bus was carrying tourists from Niagara Falls to New York City, and individuals came from China, India and the Philippines.
https://www.btpm.org/local/2025-08-22/developing-i-90-closed-near-pembroke-due-to-tour-bus-crash
Illegal driver?..............
Praying for all of the people and their family and loved ones, the rescue personnel and the doctors and nurses.
With all the reckless driving by the illegal aliens, and aliens with fraudulent licenses, one must wonder if this is another similar case.
Terrible. Prayers up.
Could not have had more perfect weather for driving in Western NY - open country highway, blue skies, 70 Deg. F, low humidity, etc...
clearly is driver(s) caused / human error.
Beat me to it.
Too soon to make a Three Stooges joke?
Prayers for all concerned.
what country did the bus driver migrate in from?
what state gave him his CDC?
Didn’t the state have a bus crash on an interstate highway with multiple casualties last year?
If we get hard core about illegals, I can already hear the dems bleating, “Who’s gonna drive our busses?”
20 souls in a limo. Wedding party in the eastern part of the state. There was something questionable about the driver, who was among the deceased.
There was a bus crash a couple years ago (I got caught up in that traffic mess), but no deaths.
There was a bush crash in Northern NY in January 2023 which killed six people
Why no report on who the driver was? Is t that standard operating procedure?
George H. W. Bush died in 2018 so this one must have been George W. Bush's fault.
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