Overview

• State police reported multiple fatalities and injuries, with at least one child believed to be among the dead.
• A passenger manifest confirmed 52 people were aboard, including the driver, on a return trip to New York City from Niagara Falls.
• Officials said the bus entered the median, over-corrected and rolled into a ditch without striking another vehicle.
• Mercy Flight helicopters ferried patients to area hospitals, and Erie County Medical Center said it received 16; responders treated ejected and trapped passengers.
• The Thruway was closed in both directions between Exits 48A and 49 as the driver cooperates with an active investigation.