Five people died and dozens were injured in a “horrible” crash involving a tour bus and three tractor-trailers on a major US highway Sunday. Pennsylvania State Police said the pre-dawn crash on the busy Pennsylvania Turnpike — billed as America’s “First Superhighway” — happened at 3:40 am (0840 GMT) in Westmoreland County, east of Pittsburgh. Police said the tour bus “was travelling on a downhill curve and struck an embankment” before the commercial vehicles behind it then hit the bus. A passenger vehicle was also involved, police said, without giving a cause of the crash. Asked if weather conditions were a factor, DeFebo replied: “We just can’t say.”The Pennsylvania Turnpike, which opened in 1940, was closed in both directions, he said.

Source: Punch January 05, 2020 18:56 UTC