Queens Bus Crash Leaves 3 Dead, 16 Injured; New Video Shows Moment Of Impact

A private tour bus slammed into an MTA bus early Monday.

FLUSHING, QUEENS — A tour coach with a history of safety violations slammed into a city bus in Queens Monday, killing three people and leaving 16 more hurt, authorities said.

The vehicles collided as the MTA bus turned right from Main Street onto Northern Boulevard, in Flushing, around 6:15 a.m. One of the dead was a pedestrian who “was simply walking down the sidewalk,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. Another was the tour bus driver and the third a passenger on the MTA bus, NYPD Assistant Chief Juanita Holmes said.

Security camera footage shared on Twitter shows the MTA bus slowly making a right turn, while the tour bus barrels down Northern Boulevard:

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