One person died and dozens of others were injured, at least five critically, after a bus carrying a high school marching band from Long Island crashed on a New York highway and went down an embankment on Thursday afternoon, the authorities said.
The bus, carrying students from Farmingdale High School, was one of six coach buses traveling to an annual marching band camp in Pennsylvania, according to a spokeswoman for the Farmingdale School District.
It went off the road on a section of I-84 in the town of Wawayanda, in Orange County, a spokesman for the Slate Hill Fire Department said.
Details about what caused the accident were not immediately available.
Organizations:
Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale School, Slate, Fire Department
Locations:
Long, New York, Pennsylvania, Farmingdale, Farmingdale School District, Wawayanda, Orange County