Witnesses described chaos, with a massive turnout of ambulances and other responders. The store posted Sunday that it was open “and could use your hugs.” In a Facebook post on Saturday, the store thanked emergency responders for their actions. Christopher Fiore said at a news conference in Latham, N.Y.Ĭustomers in the parking lot were killed when they were hit by the limo coming down a hill on state Route 30 at “probably over 60 mph,” the store manager, Jessica Kirby, told the New York Times. when it failed to stop at a T-junction with state Route 30A, State Police First Deputy Supt.
The 2001 Ford Excursion limousine was traveling southwest on state Route 30 in Schoharie, about 170 miles north of New York City, about 2 p.m. They’d do anything for you and they were very close to each other and they loved their family.” She did not want to name them publicly but added: “They were wonderful girls. “They did the responsible thing getting a limo so they wouldn’t have to drive anywhere,” their aunt, Barbara Douglas, told reporters Sunday. Relatives said the limousine was carrying four sisters and their friends to a birthday celebration for the youngest. The crash turned a relaxed Saturday afternoon into chaos at an upstate New York spot popular with tourists taking in the fall foliage, with witnesses reporting bodies on the ground and broken tree limbs everywhere.
A limousine loaded with revelers headed to a 30th birthday party blew a stop sign at the end of a highway and plowed into a parked, unoccupied SUV, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians in the deadliest transportation accident in the United States in almost a decade, officials said Sunday.