Tour bus crashes, killing 14
NEW YORK - A tour bus returning from a casino at daybreak Saturday scraped along a guard rail, tipped on its side and slammed into a pole that sheared it nearly end to end, leaving a jumble of bodies and twisted metal along an interstate highway. Fourteen passengers were killed.
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Many of the passengers on the bus were residents of Manhattan's Chinatown. They ranged in age from 20 to 50, officials said.
The bus had just reached the outskirts of New York City on a journey from the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut to Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood when the crash happened. The driver told police he lost control trying to avoid a swerving tractor-trailer.
As many as 20 passengers were treated at area hospitals. Seven were in critical condition, according to police. Several were in surgery later in the day.
The crash happened at 5:35 a.m., with some of the 31 passengers still asleep. The bus scraped along the guard rail for 300 feet, toppled and crashed into the support pole for a highway sign indicating an exit.
The pole knifed through the bus front to back along the w
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