Man Killed In Queens Bus Crash
A man is dead following a collision involving a van and a bus at the intersection of 39th Ave and 69th Street.in Queens.
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A man is dead following a collision involving a van and a bus at the intersection of 39th Ave and 69th Street.in Queens.
A spokeswoman for Cooper University Hospital in Camden says 11-year-olds Sophie Tezsla and Jonathan Zdybel remain in critical condition. The condition of Natalie Tezsla, also 11, was upgraded Friday to stable.
The bus was bound for Ulster Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison. The prisoners were being transported there after being held in New York City for court appearances.
There were 17 people were on board the bus. Six people were injured, though none of the injuries are considered to be life threatening.
Many of the 35 passengers aboard the bus operated by Mr. Ho Charter Service were taken to local hospitals -- including one person who had to be airlifted.
Virginia authorities have charged the driver of Tuesday's fatal bus crash with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.
North Carolina-based Sky Express Inc. has been shut down nationwide, including in New York City's Chinatown, the destination of the ill-fated bus involved in Tuesday's crash in Virginia that left four dead and 54 injured.
Officials said a crash between a car and a New York City bus carrying 15 passengers at John F. Kennedy Airport left one person dead and several people injured Wednesday night.
Two New York lawmakers say the National Transportation Safety Board will commence a broad investigation of the low-cost tour bus industry.
The company involved in last week's bus crash on the New Jersey Turnpike apparently has been under federal scrutiny.
Relatives of last week's fatal bus crash in the Bronx returned to the accident scene for a Buddhist ceremony on Saturday morning.
New York state police say they have found all the surviving passengers who were on the casino bus that crashed last weekend in the Bronx, killing 15 people.
Two recent fatal tour bus crashes originating from Chinatown has put the spotlight on the fleets of inexpensive buses plying the highways of the Northeast.
Police were examining the wreckage of a bus that crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike Monday night to try to figure out why it crashed.
Authorities are trying to determine what led to Saturday's tour bus crash in The Bronx that killed 15 people, and are going interviewing driver Ophadell Williams.
State police said two people were dead following a luxury bus crash on the New Jersey Turnpike on Monday night.
The NY State Department of Correctional Services says Ophadell Williams, 40, was convicted of manslaughter for his role in a 1990 stabbing and served just over two years.
Passengers and witnesses told investigators that the driver's account of getting clipped by a tractor-trailer didn't match up to what they felt and saw.
A bus returning from a Connecticut casino Saturday scraped along a guard rail, tipped on its side and slammed into a pole along Interstate 95. that left 14 people dead and many others injured.
Authorities in northern New Jersey say a 90-year-old woman critically injured when she was struck by a commuter bus that then left the scene has died from injuries.
