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A tour bus returning denver travel agent jobs from a casino at daybreak scraped along an interstate guard rail, tipped on its side and slammed into a pole that sheared it nearly end to end, leaving a jumble of bodies and twisted metal along Interstate 95. Fourteen passengers were killed.
This image provided by ABC-TV shows the World Wide Tours tour bus after it was sliced by the exit sign on Interstate 95 south in the Bronx borough of New York early Saturday morning March 12, 2011. Officials say 13 people have died. Officials say 13 people have died. A New York Fire Department spokesman says the bus was carrying 31 to 33 passengers. He says in addition denver travel agent jobs to the fatalities, six passengers were critically denver travel agent jobs injured and four have been transported to hospitals. The spokesman says 11 others denver travel agent jobs sustained minor injuries. (AP Photo/ABC)
Emergency personnel denver travel agent jobs investigate the scene of a bus crash on Interstate-95 in the Bronx borough of New York Saturday, March 12, 2011. At least 13 people died when the bus, returning to New York from a casino in Connecticut, flipped onto its side and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. (AP Photo/David Karp)
NEW YORK (AP) — A tour bus returning denver travel agent jobs from a casino at daybreak scraped along an interstate guard rail, tipped on its side and slammed denver travel agent jobs into a pole that sheared it nearly end to end, leaving a jumble of bodies denver travel agent jobs and twisted metal along Interstate denver travel agent jobs 95. Fourteen passengers were killed.
The bus had just reached the outskirts of New York City on a journey from the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut when the crash happened. The driver told police denver travel agent jobs he lost control trying to avoid a swerving tractor-trailer.
The crash happened at 5:35 a.m., with some of the 31 passengers still asleep. The bus scraped along the guard rail for 300 feet, toppled and crashed into the support pole for a highway sign indicating the exit for the Hutchinson Parkway.
The pole knifed through the bus front to back along the window line, peeling the roof off all the way to the back tires. Most people aboard were hurled to the front of the bus on impact, fire chief Edward Kilduff said.
Chung Ninh, 59, told The New York Times and NY1 News that he had been asleep in his seat, then suddenly found himself hanging upside-down from his seat belt, surrounded by the dead and screaming. One man bled from a severed arm.
Ninh said when he tried to help one bloodied woman, the driver told him to stop, because she was dead. "Forget this one. Help another one," he said the driver told him. He said he and other passengers who were able climbed out through a skylight.
denver travel agent jobs New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said police were still looking denver travel agent jobs for the truck, which did not stop after the crash. He said the truck was in a lane to the bus' left, although it was unclear whether the two vehicles touched.
Fifteen were being treated at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. A hospital denver travel agent jobs spokeswoman, denver travel agent jobs Barbara DeIorio, said some injuries were serious but had no immediate information on how many were gravely hurt. Five more were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where two were on life support, breathing with the assistance of machines.
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