At least five are dead and 60 injured in a pileup involving a tour bus along the Pennsylvania turnpike.
The early Sunday morning crash occurred in a mountainous stretch of the road near Pittsburgh, according to CBS New York. At about 3:40 a.m., a bus carrying 52 people from New York City bound for Cincinnati, Ohio, lost control and flipped on its side.
Two tractor-trailers slammed into the overturned bus and another tractor-trailer then smashed into that pileup. Authorities said an additional passenger vehicle was also involved in the crash.
Among those on the bus who died were 9-year-old Jaremy Vazquez and 35-year-old Eileen Zelis Aria. The driver of the bus, 58-year-old Shuang Qing Feng, was also killed.
Dennis Kehler, 48, and 53-year-old Daniel Kepner died in one of the tractor-trailers involved in the pileup. At least 60 people were hospitalized and expected to survive.
“It was headed on a downhill grade, and the bus was unable to negotiate a corner. That bus went up an embankment, rolled over, and then was subsequently struck,” said Stephen Limani, a Pennsylvania State Police spokesman.
The deadly accident caused about 90 miles of the road to be shut down for much of Sunday. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
