The Buffalo News

GENESEE COUNTY, N.Y. — Around 12:20 p.m. Friday, Scott Wooton sat in a meeting with other Mercy Flight leaders to conduct a policy review.

All of a sudden, their phones lit up. A tour bus had rolled over on the Thruway in Genesee County. Wooton and other administrators hoped it wouldn’t be that bad, wanting to believe that perhaps the bus wasn’t moving at a high rate of speed or that everyone inside was buckled up.

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Five people were killed Friday when a tour bus carrying 54 people lost control in the eastbound lanes of the Thruway just before exit 48A near Pembroke in Genesee County .

But then they heard there was at least one passenger ejection from the bus. Wooton and Mercy Flight’s leadership called the organization’s commun

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