It looked like a scene from a movie or video game, Rob Glinski said. The large white bus in front of him on the New York State Thruway had been going over 70 miles an hour when it began swerving between lanes.

The possibility of mechanical failure and impairment or intoxication of the driver as causes of the crash have been ruled out. The Indian national was identified as Shankar Kumar Jha, 65, from Bihar.

Multiple people have been killed in the bus crash, a state trooper James O'Callaghan told media minutes ago. Others are still trapped, he said. Authorities believe the tour bus was coming from Niagara Falls and believed to be heading towards New York City when it lost control, went into the median, overcorrected, and crashed into a ditch.