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发表于 2010-9-12 08:06
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A Canadian on a double-decker bus that crashed in New York State on Saturday said a terrific jolt catapulted her across several seats when the bus rammed into a low-hanging bridge, killing four people.0 p* z: D5 k/ B; _) [; j
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"I fell over, was thrown over people, and then it was all quiet," said Vicky Reed, 71, from Dundas, Ont. "The top of the bus had been pushed back just like an accordion."3 I( K7 j1 ^6 J
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The Toronto-bound Megabus, which was not on its regular route, failed to clear a railway bridge, crashed, and flipped on its side around 2:30 a.m. The accident occurred on the Onondaga Lake Parkway in a Syracuse suburb, some 400 kilometres southeast of Toronto.5 |* v% w1 ]( i
7 l+ G7 H- h- Z2 j$ EA Foreign Affairs spokesperson in Ottawa confirmed late Saturday none of the Canadians on board the bus were killed or seriously injured. At least seven Canadians, all from Ontario, were among the 28 passengers on board the bus.4 H7 Z) c) o7 ~2 m3 S& V
. x$ {2 D/ n4 T* IDon Carmichael, senior vice-president for Coach USA, which operates Megabus, said the details of the incident were still "sketchy." He didn't know why the bus had left its prescribed route when it crashed.' t* K4 H0 J; u+ J ?' v% Q( U
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"It is not an alternative route prescribed; that's going to be part of our investigation," he said. "We really have no idea why it was on that route."
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" z/ ?* h O" M0 U" RCarmichael said the bus driver had driven the route "a number of times" and would have known the proper routing to come off Interstate 81 for a scheduled stop at the Regional Transportation Center in Syracuse.0 {0 m, a' U7 G8 n1 Y; t- _
' k- G+ w$ `# I \- w Q QThe bus driver was among five people who remained in hospital Saturday.+ a0 L/ F5 g2 F3 B F! b0 ] M
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Many of the passengers aboard were rushed to various area hospitals with injuries that reportedly ranged from minor to serious.
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3 t' s0 E; ~: i/ e C) WOnondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh said the fatalities included three men and a woman in her teens or early 20s. He said two of the dead were not from the U.S. and one was from Kansas. Walsh also said there was no indication the driver had been drinking or using drugs.% O" I+ y% L" X
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Reed said the four passengers who were killed were seated at the top of the bus, near the front, right where the vehicle would have crashed into the low-hanging bridge.
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/ ?) q$ V# J' d; n"The bus was too tall and so it sort of ripped the top of the front part of the bus off," said Reed. "The bus was then sort of on its side." |
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