Two people were killed and another 20 people were injured when a coach bus carrying passengers crashed into other vehicles and flipped over a median into oncoming traffic late the night of June 29, authorities in New York said.
Police said they responded to the crash on the Long Island Expressway at about 11:45 p.m. ET. The bus, driven by an unidentified 35-year-old man, was traveling westbound on the Long Island Expressway when it collided with another vehicle, causing that vehicle to collide with a third in a chain reaction, near the exit at Greenpoint Avenue, the New York Police Department said in a statement.
“The initial collision then caused the bus to flip over the median onto oncoming eastbound traffic,” police said…