A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people aboard crashed and rolled on Friday on a highway, killing five passengers and injuring many others, authorities said.
People inside the bus were ejected as the windows shattered.
“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.
Update from state troopers at the scene. Multiple ejections from the tour bus heading from NF to NYC. Some still trapped. Multiple fatalities, including at least one child. Most families on board are Indian, Chinese, Filipino. Translators being brought in. @SPECNews1BUF pic.twitter.com/MskZrhsblK
— Viktoria Hallikäär (@ViktoriaKrista) August 22, 2025The bus was traveling eastbound on the highway when it went into the median and ended up in a ditch on the right side of the road, O’Callaghan said. Most passengers were of Indian, Chinese and Filipino ethnicity, he said.
“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.
Hospitals in the region said they evaluated or treated more than 40 people. Injuries ranged from head trauma to broken arms and legs.
Two people who needed surgery were expected to recover, said Dr Jeffrey Brewer, chief of surgery at a local hospital.
“It’s a full-size tour bus. Heavy amount of damage,” O’Callaghan said. “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.”
In response to a bus crash in New York in 2023, laws were changed to require seat belt use on charter buses built on or after November 28, 2016. The age of the bus in Friday’s crash wasn’t immediately known.
“There was glass all over the road and people’s stuff all over the road,” witness Powell Stephens told The Buffalo News after he drove by the crash. “Windows were all shattered.”
With additional reporting from AP
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