3 die as buses collide at new york city intersection
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3 die as buses collide at New York City intersection

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The tour bus was flying
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A charter bus owned by a company with a record of safety problems barreled through an intersection, slammed into a city bus and then plowed across a sidewalk into a building Monday, killing three people.
The wreck, which was captured by a security camera, ripped away the facade of a fried chicken restaurant and started a small fire. The video appeared to show the charter bus racing through the intersection without applying its brakes.
“The tour bus was flying,” Mike Ramos, a witnesses to the crash, told the Daily News. “There was people pinned under the front of the city bus. A lady was crying and screaming, ‘Get me out! Get me out!’” he said.
One of the people killed was a pedestrian on the sidewalk, identified by police as Henry Wdowiak, 68, of Queens. The other dead were the charter bus driver, Raymond Mong, 49, and a passenger on the Metropolitan Transportation bus, Gregory Liljefors, 55.
Sixteen other people were hurt, some of them seriously, in the crash, which happened at 6:15 a.m. in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, city officials said at a briefing. The charter bus was empty of passengers at the time of the crash.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was shocked by the “sheer destruction.”
A building that houses a number of retail stores, including the restaurant, received substantial impact from the crash, and experts were working to make sure it was secure, the mayor said.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota said that although the investigation has just begun, the evidence indicates there was “an enormous amount of speed.”
“We want to make sure we understand what happened and prevent this from ever happening again,” he said.
Signage on the charter bus showed it was from the Dahlia Group Inc., which has its depot a few blocks from where the wreck happened.
A person answering the phone there declined to comment; there was no immediate response to an e-mail seeking comment.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records show that a Dahlia bus was also involved in a fatal crash in Connecticut in February 2016.
One of the company’s buses was driving through a snowstorm to reach the Mohegan Sun casino when it overturned on Interstate 95 in Madison, east of New Haven. One person died, and 36 people were injured.
The company’s drivers have been cited several times over the past 12 months for safety violations, including failing to obey a traffic control device, speeding and unlawful parking in the roadway.
Federal regulators have flagged the company on a public website of having more infractions than similarly sized companies.
A Yelp page for the company is filled with complaints from motorists complaining about Dahlia buses speeding or driving dangerously.
Liljefors’ widow, Audris Liljefors, told the New York Post her husband was a security guard on his way home from a night job.
“He was a good man. He was a good husband for 27 years. He was a good father to his two step-sons,” she said.

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