Multiple Fatalities Reported In Greyhound Bus Crash

Police said that there are at least four fatalities after a Greyhound bus collided with a semi-truck on Interstate 40 in New Mexico. There were 49 passengers onboard the bus that was traveling from Albuquerque toward Phoenix. The bus began its route in St. Louis and was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Friday. 

Christopher Jones, who was one of the first people on the scene, told ABC News that the driver of the semi-truck said that his tire blew out and he veered across the median and into the bus.

"I was talking to the driver of the tractor-trailer and when I flagged what happened and talked to the driver, he said his front drive tire popped on him and so it took him into the medium onto oncoming traffic right into the Greyhound upon impact, which I’m not too sure of the details. But I am guessing it was a head-on collision," Jones said.

The front-end of the bus was obliterated while the semi-truck overturned onto its side and its contents were spilled across the highway. Other motorists pulled over to help people out of the mangled bus. 

"It was horrible there was people trying to climb out of the windows of the bus... bystanders trying to help people getting ladders out of their truck to get to windows of Greyhound bus to assist," a witness told KRQE. "When we went by the overturned semi, everything in the trailer was out on the road. It was a disaster...you could tell people were in distress, screams were coming from bus."

Videos and photos shared on social media showed the carnage of the head-on collision. 

Greyhound issued a statement saying they are "fully cooperating with local authorities."

"The total number of injuries has not been determined at this time. The cause of the incident has not yet been determined. We are fully cooperating with local authorities and will also complete an investigation of our own. Please contact the New Mexico State Police Department for any further details," Greyhound said.