NY crash survivors say driver swerved
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March 15, 2011, Tuesday
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THE 15th victim has died after a tour bus that crashed on a New York highway in a horrific weekend accident, as some survivors disputed the driver's version of events.
Police say a 70-year-old man died from his injuries yesterday. His name and the names of 14 others have not yet been released.
The bus slid into a sign pole that sheared it end to end in a scene of blood, jumbled bodies and shattered glass.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it will analyze footage from the camera that faced passengers and will examine an engine control module that may indicate how fast the bus was going.
Passengers and witnesses to the crash told investigators that the driver's account of getting clipped by a tractor-trailer didn't match up to what they felt and saw before the vehicle slid off the road and into a sign pole.
Driver Ophadell Williams had told police that his bus was hit just as it crossed the New York City line early on Saturday on a trip from a casino in Connecticut.
But passengers said Williams had already swerved at times to the right for no -reason before the accident, a law enforcement official said on Sunday.
The official said that passengers said they didn't feel anything hit them and that other motorists on Interstate 95 said they didn't see the bus get hit. The official said police spoke to the tractor-trailer driver, who said he was -following the bus.
Williams was hospitalized in stable condition after the crash and was released on Sunday night, St Barnabas Hospital spokesman Howard Matzner said.
Police say a 70-year-old man died from his injuries yesterday. His name and the names of 14 others have not yet been released.
The bus slid into a sign pole that sheared it end to end in a scene of blood, jumbled bodies and shattered glass.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it will analyze footage from the camera that faced passengers and will examine an engine control module that may indicate how fast the bus was going.
Passengers and witnesses to the crash told investigators that the driver's account of getting clipped by a tractor-trailer didn't match up to what they felt and saw before the vehicle slid off the road and into a sign pole.
Driver Ophadell Williams had told police that his bus was hit just as it crossed the New York City line early on Saturday on a trip from a casino in Connecticut.
But passengers said Williams had already swerved at times to the right for no -reason before the accident, a law enforcement official said on Sunday.
The official said that passengers said they didn't feel anything hit them and that other motorists on Interstate 95 said they didn't see the bus get hit. The official said police spoke to the tractor-trailer driver, who said he was -following the bus.
Williams was hospitalized in stable condition after the crash and was released on Sunday night, St Barnabas Hospital spokesman Howard Matzner said.
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