Bus driver Alfredo Telemaco, 54, Marco Fornasetti, 29, and Rino Guerra, 69, killed and 4 injured when semi-truck collides with bus carrying Italian tourists on Interstate 380 in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania

Modified Date: 
Tue, 07/19/2022 - 1:00pm
Accident Date: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Bus carrying Italian tourists collides with truck, killing 3

A charter bus taking Italian tourists to Niagara Falls collided with a tractor-trailer Wednesday on an eastern Pennsylvania highway, killing the bus driver and two others on the bus and leaving four people in critical condition, authorities said.

2 TRUCKS, BUS COLLIDE IN POCONOS LEAVING 3 DEAD, MANY HURT

The company went on to say: "We can confirm that one of the deceased is the bus driver. We offer our condolences to the family of this valued member of our Academy team, as well as to the families of others tragically affected by this accident. We also extend our thoughts to the injured."

Bus carrying Italian tourists collides with truck, killing 3

The bus appears to have been chartered by Viaggidea, an Italian tour operator whose name is also on the bus. The company operates tours that head from New York to Niagara Falls and Canada and elsewhere around the country.

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He is identified as 54-year-old Alfredo Telemaco of New York.Telemaco along with two passengers on the bus died but several others were injured.

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State police are trying to determine why a tractor-trailer collided on an eastern Pennsylvania highway with a charter bus taking Italian tourists to Niagara Falls, killing the bus driver and two passengers and leaving four people in critical condition.

Italian honeymooner among 3 dead in bus-truck highway crash

Police identified two victims Thursday: Marco Fornasetti and Rino Guerra, both passengers on the bus. The Italian news agency ANSA said Fornasetti, 29, was a newlywed from the northern city of Vicenza and his bride, a pharmacist like him, was among the injured. Police said Guerra, 69, was an Italian citizen.

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A tractor trailer driver faces homicide by vehicle and other charges more than two years after a deadly collision with a tour bus in the Poconos. 

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Fifty-seven-year-old Franklin Wyatt was arraigned Wednesday on 34 charges, including three counts of involuntary manslaughter.   

A charter bus that was taking Italian tourists to Niagara Falls was traveling on Interstate 380 after departing from the New York metro area when the bus collided with a tractor-trailer. The bus was carrying 17 people, and during the collision three of them including the bus driver were killed, and four were left in critical condition. More than a dozen people were taken to local hospitals for treatment. 

Type: Bus Accident
People Involved: 
Alfredo Telemaco
Marco Fornasetti
Rino Guerra
Franklin Wyatt
Roadway: 
Interstate 380

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