East Brunswick, NJ – A luxury bus crashed Monday night on one of the nation’s most heavily trafficked highways, killing the driver and another person, police said.
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Several people were badly injured in the New Jersey Turnpike crash, state police Sgt. Stephen Jones said.
The one-vehicle crash happened just days after a bus from an Uncasville, Conn., casino crashed as it was returning to New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood, killing 15 people.
Monday’s crash of the luxury bus, which was carrying 25 to 30 people, sent five people to a hospital’s trauma ward and left several others with minor injuries, state police said. The bus driver was thrown through the windshield, they said.
The bus, operated by a company from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., slammed into a guard rail and a concrete abutment while traveling south on the turnpike in East Brunswick, but it didn’t flip onto its side as initially believed, police said.
The cause of the crash hadn’t been determined.
The turnpike, which handled more than 235 million vehicles two years ago, generally has five lanes in each direction. The crash closed two southbound outer lanes.
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2 doa at least 22 injured
Which Company???
Wonder how much the driver had lost in the casino…??