Bus Crash in Pennsylvania Kills 2 (AP)

by jordan | May 20, 2007 at 11:12 am

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UPDATE: The bus was on its way to New York City:
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Sau Wong of OK Travel Bus Inc. said the bus, one of two or three the
company owns, left Youngstown, Ohio, after midnight and was headed for
New York City. She said the bus line mainly serves Chinese customers
but also carries other passengers.

She had previously said the bus had been contracted out to another company, but later said she was mistaken.

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The bus was traveling eastbound on Interstate 80 with 35 people on board when it crashed six miles west of Clearfield at about 3:30 a.m., state police said.

"It appears that the bus, and we don't know why, did leave the roadway, and came back on, and the bus did eventually wind up on its side," state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Marla Fannin said.

Fannin said two people died and the others had various injuries.

Thirty-one people, ranging in age from a toddler to a 50-year-old, were taken to Clearfield Hospital, nurse manager Monica Smith said. Doctors treated lung and abdominal injuries, along with various abrasions and lacerations, she said.

Seven people were transferred to a hospital in Altoona, where one was listed in serious condition and six were in guarded condition, nursing supervisor Ann Langenbacher said.

Investigators were having difficulty piecing together what happened because most of the passengers were Asian and did not speak English, state Trooper Terry Jordan said.

The name of the company that operated the bus was not immediately known.