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ARTICLE VIEW:
A Niagara Falls trip, then glass everywhere: How a New York bus tour
turned deadly
By Nic Anderson, Leigh Waldman, CNN
Updated:
6:26 PM EDT, Sun August 24, 2025
Source: CNN
It looked like a scene from a movie or video game, Rob Glinski said.
A tour bus, heading back to New York City after a trip to the American
side of Niagara Falls, was swerving between lanes on the New York State
Thruway when it crashed just after noon on Friday.
The bus driver got distracted and lost control, officials said,
overcorrecting and rolling over on the interstate, near the town of
Pembroke, about 40 miles east of Niagara Falls.
Glinski said it was like someone had taken a snow globe and shaken it.
He thought about the more than 50 passengers onboard, many of whom
might not have been wearing seat belts.
First responders swarmed the area to help the passengers, some of whom
were ejected or trapped. Many of the passengers, some from China and
the Philippines, spoke little English, so along with the ambulances and
the tow trucks, translators were brought in to help police sort out
what happened.
“So many people were hurt and some of them are smaller than me, maybe
4 or 5 years old,” Zihan Lnfu, 8 years old, told CNN affiliate .
Five people were killed in the crash, including a Columbia University
student from China. At least 47 of the passengers on the bus were taken
to four regional hospitals for treatment for critical and minor
injuries, including head and internal injuries and broken bones.
Gao Gao Yu, who had been on the bus with her father, said some
passengers began climbing out of the windows to get out. She told
Spectrum News Rochester she had no shoes and there was glass
everywhere.
Yu said she saw “a guy who had a really bad cut on his head” who
“couldn’t move,” and a family of five, including a one-year-old
in a car seat, sitting behind the bus driver.
Glinski, who had been driving in his truck, said everyone behind him
started braking after the bus crashed.
“It was almost like you went in slow motion,” he said.
He pulled over and ran to help passengers who were thrown from the bus.
A nurse and several doctors who had been driving on the I-90 when the
bus jumped into action as well, he added.
“They came through very organized, they placed numbers and
color-coded cards down on the ground, and the medics attended those
people in accordance to the numbers that were placed out, and it was
totally calm,” Glinski said.
Glinski, 57, came across a young woman who had been traveling with her
parents and uncle.
“I looked at her arm, her arm was just a mess,” he said.
He took his Under Armour shirt off, and used it as a tourniquet, tying
it under the woman’s armpit as tight as he could.
Glinski said he waited with her until she was loaded into an ambulance
and taken to a hospital.
The Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, the only adult level-one
trauma center for Western New York, received 21 patients. On Sunday, an
official with the hospital said 11 people had been discharged, with
another expected to be released. All of their other patients have been
deemed medically stable.
Six victims were brought to the University of Rochester Medical Center
by air and ground ambulance, said hospital spokesperson Scott Hesel.
“Two are being treated for critical injuries and four are medically
stable, including one pediatric patient,” he said.
Kaleida Health said in a statement to it received 20 patients,
including four adults in good condition to Buffalo General Medical
Center, 11 adults and two children to Millard Fillmore Suburban
Hospital and three children – one in serious condition – to Oishei
Children’s Hospital. Most of the patients were in good or fair
condition and at least one of those adults has been discharged, the
health care network said.
Additional patients were taken to United Memorial Medical Center in
Batavia, according to state police.
Powell Stephens, who drove by the crash on his way home to Medina from
Buffalo, said the scene was heartbreaking. “There was a lot of people
embracing each other. It looked like people were breaking down,”
Stephens told CNN affiliate
People who saw the aftermath of the wreck said glass and people’s
belongings were scattered on the highway.
“We were lucky to survive,” Yu said.
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