TOBYHANNA, Pa. (AP) – A tractor-trailer and a bus carrying Italian tourists collided Wednesday on a highway in eastern Pennsylvania, killing three people and sending more than a dozen to hospitals, authorities said.
The crash occurred shortly after 10 a.m. on Interstate 380 in the Pocono Mountain region about 75 miles northwest of New York City.
The mangled front end of the bus was left upright on the highway but wedged into the side of the tractor-trailer, which was sheared in half. The cab came to rest on its side in the woods next to the road, one of its axles torn off.
Monroe County Coroner Robert Allen told reporters at the scene that the death toll had climbed from two to three.
State police said a second tractor-trailer was reported to have been involved, but investigators were still trying to determine what happened.