SALINA, N.Y. — A double-decker bus that may have made a wrong turn off the highway slammed into a low railroad bridge in the darkness Saturday in a wreck that killed four passengers and critically injured others, authorities said.
The Megabus was carrying 28 people, including the driver, when it rammed the bridge around 2:30 a.m. on the Onondaga Lake Parkway in Salina, a suburb of Syracuse in central New York.
The bus lay on its side after the crash. Three passengers and the driver remained hospitalized Saturday afternoon. Twenty passengers, including seven Canadian residents, were treated and released, a Coach USA official said.
The bus was too tall to make it under the low-hanging span, an Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department official said.
It struck the bridge between two large signs warning that the clearance was 10 feet, 9 inches, photographs from WSYR-TV showed. The top level of the bus was obliterated in the front.
The driver had head injuries but was speaking to investigators, officials said.
The dead included three men and a woman in her teens or early 20s, the sheriff said. He said there was no indication the driver had been drinking or using drugs.
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