A coach bus flipped over into oncoming traffic on the Long Island Expressway shortly before midnight Monday, killing two people and injuring 10 others, according to New York City authorities.<\/p>\n
The bus was traveling west when it collided with a vehicle near Exit 16 onto Greenpoint Avenue, setting off a collision with four other vehicles, according to a Police Department spokeswoman.<\/p>\n
The bus then flipped over the median into eastbound traffic, the spokeswoman said, adding that the information was preliminary.<\/p>\n
The driver of the bus and one passenger were pronounced dead at the scene, the police said.<\/p>\n
Twenty people were taken to local hospitals for injuries, including three with critical injuries, the Fire Department said in an email.<\/p>\n
The two victims were not identified. It was also unclear what had caused the crash.<\/p>\n
The authorities said that they were still investigating, and that they had blocked all lanes eastbound and westbound on the Long Island Expressway at 50th Street. By 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, all lanes had reopened, the Department of Transportation confirmed in an email.<\/p>\n
About 79 fire and emergency services personnel responded, and operations were ongoing, the Fire Department said.<\/p>\n
Claire Fahy contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coach bus flipped over into oncoming traffic on the Long Island Expressway shortly before midnight Monday, killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1209,67999,58525,9,24,63,30355,122,124,123,10924],"class_list":["post-283118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-buses","tag-fire-department-nyc","tag-long-island-expressway","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-police-department-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-roads-and-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}