A bus with dozens of passengers aboard rolled over on a highway in upstate New York on Thursday morning, critically injuring one person and sending over two dozen to hospitals, authorities said. No other vehicles were involved.
“This was a very significant accident,” Chief Deputy Michael Fowler of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office told reporters Thursday afternoon. “The bus left the roadway, reentered the roadway, eventually flipped, ended up on its side, where it slid probably approximately 200 yards before it came to a stop on its side.”
The driver was issued four tickets for the incident — fatigued driving, unreasonable speed, unsafe lane changes and not wearing a seat belt — Fowler said. Investigators believe the bus was going over 70 mph at the time of the accident.
“The driver was actually ejected through the front windshield, but the injuries were not significant,” Fowler said.
Twenty-eight people were sent to area hospitals, some with minor injuries, after the bus overturned on Interstate 490 west of Rochester around 7 a.m., according to officials.