New York Bus Crash Kills 14, Critically Injures 5

VOA Breaking News (Voice of America)
March 12, 2011 at 8:10 pm

U.S. authorities say 14 people were killed and five critically injured early Saturday in New York City when a tour bus flipped on its side and crashed into a large support post for a highway sign.

The 14th victim died in the hospital later Saturday.

Police said the bus driver told them a tractor trailer clipped the bus from behind, sending it swerving and skidding into the sign support. The post stood intact, nearly slicing the bus in two from front to back at the window level.

Police are searching for the driver of the truck, which did not stop after the crash.

All the survivors of the crash were injured. The bus, which was carrying 32 people. was returning to the city from a trip to a casino in the neighboring state of Connecticut.