One Dead & Multiple People Hurt In Bus Crash In N.Y.

WAWAYANDA, N.Y. (AP) — One person is dead and dozens more hurt after a charter bus carrying high school students to a band camp hurtled off a New York highway and down an embankment. The wreck happened on Interstate 84 in the town of Wawayanda. That’s about 45 miles northwest of New York City. Officials say 43 people were taken to hospitals. Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus told WNBC-TV at least five people were badly hurt. The bus was one of six in a caravan carrying students from Farmingdale High School on Long Island to a band camp in the northeastern Pennsylvania community of Greeley.