Twenty people have been killed after a limousine taking people to a birthday party went past a stop sign at the end of a New York state highway and collided with a parked car. Twenty people have been killed after a limousine taking people to a birthday party went past a stop sign at the end of a New York state highway and collided with a parked car. 'It sounded like an explosion' - 20 people dead after 'birthday party' limousine crash in New YorkAll 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians died in the deadliest road accident in the United States in almost a decade, officials said. The collision turned a relaxed Saturday afternoon into chaos at an upstate New York spot popular with tourists taking in the autumn foliage. The store manager, Jessica Kirby, told The New York Times that the limo was coming down a hill at "probably over 60mph".

Source: Irish Independent October 07, 2018 21:51 UTC