Twenty-six people were taken to hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening, after a Toronto-to-New York bus crashed in upstate New York early today.
The crash happened at 2:30 a.m. ET on Highway I-81 near Nedrow, N.Y., about 10 kilometres south of Syracuse.
The Trailways bus, which had 52 people on board, T-boned a car that had hit a guard rail minutes earlier and was left disabled in the passing lane of the highway. The southbound bus then rear-ended a tractor-trailer that had pulled over at the side of the road to help.
It's now known how many bus passengers, if any, are Canadian.
The driver of the car, who was later found walking down the highway, will face charges of impaired driving.
Assistant fire Chief Richard Nemier of the Nedrow Volunteer Fire Department in Syracuse was among the first on the scene.
"Luckily the truck driver had the foresight to move the truck forward and that limited the injuries," he told CBC News. "Had he not done that, it would have been a definite fatality."
It took emergency crews two hours to free the bus driver, who suffered the most serious injuries.
Trailways operates intercity buses throughout upstate New York. Calls to the company were not returned early Thursday.
Onondaga County sheriff's detective Jon Seeber said the bus was heading from Toronto to New York City and that there was a language barrier between some of the passengers and rescue crews. Seeber said the injured passengers suffered largely lower body injuries, as well as complaints of head and neck pain.
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