Car collides with bus carrying handicapped in central NY, killing woman, injuring 15 others

Car hits bus carrying handicapped in NY; 1 dead

FLEMING, N.Y. — A bus carrying handicapped people has collided with a car in central New York and has overturned, killing a woman and injuring 15 other people.

The Cayuga (ky-YOO’-gah) County sheriff says a 73-year-old woman died and the 15 others were taken to hospitals following Wednesday afternoon’s collision.

Sheriff David Gould tells WSYR-TV in Syracuse the car crossed a center line and hit the bus on a highway in Fleming, 25 miles southwest of Syracuse.

The bus was carrying 15 people, including the driver and an aide. The passengers had various disabilities, and some used wheelchairs.

Gould says the woman who died was a passenger. He doesn’t know the conditions of the people taken to hospitals.