Federal safety board to probe N.H. tour bus crash
The National Transportation Safety Board says it will investigate the crash of a Boston-bound tour bus in New Hampshire on Monday, checking to see if there are any connections between that accident and recent bus accidents in New York and New Jersey.
The tour bus full of Korean citizens headed from Canada to New Jersey left the roadway, traveled down an embankment, and came to rest on its side. The accident happened at about 8:15 p.m. Monday on Interstate 93 in Littleton, N.H. Numerous people were injured, but none of the injuries was life-threatening.
NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said the agency does "a handful" of bus crash investigations per year. He said the agency would look to see if there were any "commonalities" between the New Hampshire crash and the two other bus accidents in the Northeast this month.
Fifteen people were killed on March 12, when a bus headed to New York from a Connecticut casino crashed into a pole in the Bronx. And last week in New Jersey, the driver and a passenger were killed, and dozens of other passengers were injured when a bus crashed as it traveled from New York's Chinatown to Philadelphia.
The NTSB said Wednesday that a preliminary report was expected to be issued within 30 days.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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