A fatal accident occurred this morning in flushing, Queens, at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Main Street.
They faced two passenger bus: tourist bus and the MTA. The impact was so strong that a tour bus crashed into a school Kennedy Pizza & Chicken, where he later started a small fire.
Now it is known about three victims. Two passengers died in the hospital (including the driver of a tourist bus), one person died on the spot. According to preliminary data, it was a pedestrian who fell under the wheels of one of the buses.
Three people have died, including the driver of a tour bus, after it you have with an MTA bus in Queens Monday https://t.co/UyNQFhFJ2M pic.twitter.com/m0Gz8l6gg6
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) September 18, 2017
As reported, police and rescue workers, at least five of the 16 injured are in critical condition. They are now in intensive care.
«I thought it was a terrorist attack. There were so many sirens,» says the NY Post 52-year-old Jay Rivera.
The representative of the police Department of new York Elton Mohammed said at a press conference that investigators now seized records from surveillance cameras and interviewing witnesses to find out exactly what happened.
From-for accidents movement in the area can be difficult.
.@NYCMayor provides update on two busses involved in a collision in #Queens https://t.co/BPvDoGZolL
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) September 18, 2017