Greater than a dozen folks had been injured when a faculty bus crashed Monday on the Backyard State Parkway in Bergen County, New Jersey.
The crash occurred at round 7:30 p.m. on the northbound aspect of the parkway simply north of Exit 171 in Montvale, proper earlier than the James Gandolfini Service Space.
The bus, which was touring from Lakewood, New Jersey to Rockland County, New York, was seen on its aspect dealing with the unsuitable manner on the freeway, and skid marks had been seen on a close-by embankment. There was no fast phrase on what precipitated it to topple over.
New Jersey State Police stated 15 folks, together with the 44-year-old driver and 14 passengers, had been handled for accidents. One of many passengers suffered critical accidents, whereas the opposite 13 had been described as minor.
“A 14-year-old boy is preventing for his life this morning after being pinned beneath the overturned bus on the Parkway,” Montvale Mayor Mike Ghassali said in a social media post Tuesday morning.
Sources stated when the bus flipped over, one passenger was ejected, and the bus landed on prime of them. Crews labored quick to rescue them and had been in a position to get a pulse.
“I noticed a head harm, like a variety of blood and stuff. It simply didn’t look good. I am praying for all of the households and all people concerned,” witness Liam Deacy stated.
“Outdoors our window you would see any individual was being loaded onto an ambulance. It broke my coronary heart,” witness Laura Santacruz added.
Quite a few college students from the bus had been seen on prime of a hill behind the close by Woodland Sq. Condo Complicated being attended to by ambulances out of Rockland County.
Gov. Phil Murphy was briefed on the scenario, and the crash drew a big response from first responders.
