Bus overturned on the New Jersey-New York highway: one person died, dozens injured
'10.08.2022'
Nadezhda Verbitskaya
At least one person was killed and nearly two dozen injured, five of them seriously, when a bus from New York collided with a pickup truck on a highway bound for New Jersey on August 9 and overturned, state police said. NBC New York.
The double-decker bus was heading from New York to Philadelphia on August 9. But around 19:00, he collided with a Ford F-150 pickup truck near the town of Woodbridge. The police are investigating the circumstances of the incident.
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The bus driver was one of five people seriously injured in the collision. Details of the other victims' injuries were not known for certain, but a total of 20 casualties and one death were reported.
Jaws of life. One passenger was trapped for 25 minutes+ pic.twitter.com/ilvtg0nND0
— Gary Lee Fortner (@GaryLFortner) August 10, 2022
As a result of the accident, the bus lay on its side. And people had to climb out of windows or a sunroof to escape. Firefighters used Jaws of Life to open the vehicle to save anyone who might be inside.
The investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing.
