Mount Pocono, PA – A tractor-trailer and a tour bus collided Wednesday on a highway in eastern Pennsylvania, killing three people and sending more than a dozen to hospitals.
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The crash occurred shortly after 10 a.m. on Interstate 380 in the Pocono Mountain region about 75 miles northwest of New York City.
Monroe County Coroner Robert Allen told reporters at the scene that the death toll had climbed from two to three.
He says all the passengers on the bus were from Italy.
The mangled front end of the bus was left upright on the highway but wedged into the side of the tractor-trailer, which was sheared in half. The cab came to rest on its side in the woods next to the road, one of its axles torn off.
State police said a second tractor-trailer was reported to have been involved, but investigators were still trying to determine what happened.
Four of the injured were flown to hospitals, and the rest were taken by ambulance, said Matt Kislak of the Monroe County 911 Center.
The tour bus has the name of the Academy Bus company but appears to have been operated by Viaggidea, an Italian tour operator whose name is also on the bus.
The company operates tours that head from New York to Niagara Falls and Canada.
After hearing a loud crash, “all of a sudden people were screaming,” Johnny Walsh, who lives near the highway, told WCAU-TV in Philadelphia.
Pop singer Gloria Estefan suffered a broken vertebra when a tractor-trailer crashed into her tour bus on the same stretch of highway in 1990 while heading to a concert in Syracuse, New York.
Pennsylvania is a dangerous place place for all comuters. Ryeboysay I deman you leave the state now no questions asked just leave and look both ways first