A lethal crash involving a double-decker Megabus and one other car is being investigated by New Jersey State Police, the company mentioned Wednesday. The Tuesday crash left two useless and a minimum of fourteen injured, in response to officers.
The crash occurred on the New Jersey Turnpike in Woodbridge Township round 6:53 p.m. In accordance with New Jersey State Police, a "Van Hool double-decker Coach bus" carrying 22 passengers was touring southbound when the driving force misplaced management and struck a Ford truck that had been touring subsequent to it.
"Primarily based on the preliminary investigation, the bus driver misplaced directional management of the bus within the space of milepost 93.2 and struck the Ford," New Jersey State Police mentioned in a press release Wednesday. "After the influence, the bus went off the street to the correct, struck the guardrail, and overturned onto the Thomas Edison Service Space entrance ramp."
The 2 deceased victims have been recognized as Bronx resident Cheryl Johnson, 59, and New Jersey resident Cecilia Kiyanitza, 66. Each have been passengers on the bus.
The bus driver, a 56-year-old man from Westville, New Jersey, and two different passengers suffered "severe accidents," in response to police. Not less than fourteen different passengers on the bus sustained non-life-threatening accidents and 4 passengers have been unhurt.
The driving force of the Ford truck was unhurt, police mentioned.
Police haven't given any indication as to what brought about the driving force to lose management. Attendants at a close-by gasoline station who witnessed the crash's aftermath instructed CBS New York it was a chaotic scenario.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board is not going to be investigating the crash.