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发帖数: 503 | 1 Officials: 13 dead in NYC tour bus accident
NEW YORK – Thirteen people died Saturday when a tour bus traveling down a
major highway in the Bronx was clipped by a tractor trailer, flipped onto
its side and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign,
authorities said.
The wreck left a scene of carnage and closed the southbound side of
Interstate-95 for hours while emergency workers attended to critically
injured survivors.
Police began a hunt for the driver of the tractor trailer, which did not
stop after the crash, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.
The bus, operated by the charter company World Wide Tours, was headed to
Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood carrying a full load of passengers
returning from the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn.
As it entered the city at around 5:30 a.m., it was struck from behind by a
tractor trailer, Browne said. The bus began swerving, toppled and crashed
into the support post for a highway sign indicating the exit for the
Hutchinson Parkway.
The pole entered through the front window, then sheared the bus from front
to back along the window line, peeling the roof off all the way to the back
tires.
Police and fire officials say the bus was carrying at least 31 passengers.
The driver survived.
In addition to the fatalities, six passengers were critically hurt and four
more hospitalized with less severe injuries, a Fire Department spokesman
said. Eleven others sustained minor injuries.
Traffic was also closed on the northbound side of the highway after the
crash, but was moving again by mid-morning. | s**********d
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: Officials: 13 dead in NYC tour bus accident
: NEW YORK – Thirteen people died Saturday when a tour bus traveling down a
: major highway in the Bronx was clipped by a tractor trailer, flipped onto
: its side and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign,
: authorities said.
: The wreck left a scene of carnage and closed the southbound side of
: Interstate-95 for hours while emergency workers attended to critically
: injured survivors.
: Police began a hunt for the driver of the tractor trailer, which did not
: stop after the crash, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.
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