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Bus riders on the $15 Chinatown-bound bus awoke in hell — jarred into a nightmare of screeching brakes, mangled metal and horrifying death.
“I saw people split open. It was awful,” one passenger named Victor recalled of yesterday’s catastrophic I-95 crash.
“Someone was crying for help . . . One man lost his hands. He was alive when the emergency people took him from the bus. People were crying. People were screaming . . . I saw a lot of death.”
Rescuers described an incredible scene of passengers crushed when the overturned bus skidded into the stanchion of a roadside sign that sliced into the vehicle “at face level.”
Chung Ninh, 59, recalled dangling in the air and clinging to his seat as the bus lurched onto its side. He and a few other passengers managed to crawl through the hatch in the roof of the bus — clawing through people covered in broken glass and trapped inside the wreckage.
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The cause of an early-morning bus crash that killed 14 people Saturday was unclear Sunday as investigators questioned the driver’s explanation that the coach was clipped by a tractor-trailer, causing it to swerve off Interstate 95 in the Bronx.
The 56-seat bus bound for Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood from the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut then smashed through a guardrail, skidded along the ground for 480 feet and flipped on its side before coming to a stop underneath a large, green highway sign. The signpost sliced off much of the bus’s roof.
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board traveled to the crash scene to launch an investigation. As of late Sunday, the team had yet to speak with the bus driver, who is hospitalized, but planned to interview him after getting clearance from his doctors, said NTSB Vice Chairman Christopher Hart. He said investigators hoped that a black box that records data about how fast the bus was going and other factors would tell them if the driver was speeding. They also planned to look at footage from a camera pointed at passengers on the bus.
Mr. Hart said his team would also probe the bus’s owner, World Wide Tours of Greater New York Ltd.
“We also want to know what kind of training programs and what kind of fatigue management programs this company has,” he said.
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The Brooklyn-based company had been cited by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for driver fatigue in February. In the last two years, its buses were involved in two accidents, each of which resulted in a single injury, according to agency records. Still, it received a “satisfactory” safety rating from inspectors. In some inspection categories, the company did better than average.
Saturday’s crash was one of the worst involving the low-fare buses that run between Chinatown and casinos and cities throughout the Northeast. But there have been numerous other accidents and close calls as the industry has grown in recent years.
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