About twenty people were injured early this morning, after a Greyhound bus overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about one mile east of the Lancaster/Lebanon interchange in Rapho Township.
About twenty people were injured early this morning, after a Greyhound bus overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about one mile east of the Lancaster/Lebanon interchange in Rapho Township.
About twenty people were injured early this morning, after a Greyhound bus overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about one mile east of the Lancaster/Lebanon interchange in Rapho Township.
About twenty people were injured early this morning, after a Greyhound bus overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about one mile east of the Lancaster/Lebanon interchange in Rapho Township.
About twenty people were injured early this morning, after a Greyhound bus overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about one mile east of the Lancaster/Lebanon interchange in Rapho Township.
A tow truck operator turns over a Greyhound bus that overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike injuring 20 people Saturday morning.
A Pennsylvania State Trooper investigates a Greyhound bus that overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike injuring 20 people Saturday morning.
About 20 people were injured early this morning, after a Greyhound bus overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike a mile east of the Lancaster/Lebanon interchange in Rapho Township.
One passenger was briefly trapped in the wreckage of the crash. Rescue crews cut a hole in the roof of the overturned bus, which had scrape marks on its roof after the crash.
The bus was headed west at about 6:05 a.m. when it flipped onto its side and spun around, ending up facing the wrong way on the turnpike.
All but four of the 25 people on the bus were injured, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission spokesman Bill Capone said.
The bus was headed from New York to St. Louis, a Greyhound spokeswoman said. It had left a stop in west Philadelphia and was headed to another stop in Columbus, Ohio, along that route.
State police said the driver, whom they identified as Kareem Edward Farmer, 24, of Philadelphia, lost control of the bus while traveling in the passing lane, the Associated Press reported.
The front end of the bus struck a concrete barrier and the left rear side rode up against the barrier, according to state police. The bus then crossed over the travel lanes, struck an embankment and traveled up the embankment before flipping over on its left side, the AP said.
Most of the passengers apparently were treated and released at local hospitals, including five who went to Lancaster General Hospital. Hershey Medical Center admitted one victim, who was listed in listed in fair condition at late morning, and said the other victim might be admitted.
Traffic was stopped for more than two hours after the crash, as rescue crews attended to the wounded and cleared the wreckage.
During that time, turnpike workers detoured traffic from the affected section of the road. They closed the Reading interchange to westbound traffic and rerouted drivers so they re-entered the toll road at the Harrisburg East interchange, to avoid further backups.
Walter Zeiset said his son, Gerald, was in their farm shop on Mountain Road, which runs alongside the turnpike. He heard the bus overturn, Zeiset said.
"It wasn't a bang, just a slide," he said.
Some of the passengers left the bus on their own but others were taken away on stretchers by the more than 10 ambulances and medic units that hurried to the scene, he said.
Early reports listed 29 people on board, but the passenger list apparently had some people listed twice, Capone said.
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