1 critical after NYC bus overturns in Chile, near Rochester, en route to Niagara Falls

CHILE, New York — A bus with dozens of passengers on board rolled onto an upstate New York highway Thursday morning, seriously injuring one person and sending others to hospitals, police said.

Officials said 28 people were sent to hospitals, some with minor injuries, after the bus overturned on Interstate 490 west of Rochester around 7 a.m.

“Officers arriving on scene found people trapped in the tour bus that had turned over on 490,” Monroe County Sheriff Toss Baxter told media at the scene. They “also found multiple people walking along the 490 in a state of confusion who were passengers on the bus,” he said.

The bus had left New York City around midnight and made stops on its way to Niagara Falls, officials said.

The cause of the rollover was not immediately clear. The driver cooperated with police investigators and there was no indication drugs or alcohol were involved, police said.

Tribal Sun, the Massachusetts law enforcement company identified as the operator of the bus, did not immediately comment.

“I join the people of New York in praying for the well-being of all involved in this serious incident and am deeply grateful for the heroic efforts of our first responders,” Governor Kathy Hochul said in a prepared statement.