Bus Full of New Yorkers Gamble and Lose Big

Terrible accident in the Bronx:

Officials say 13 people have died in a tour bus accident in the Bronx.

A New York Fire Department spokesman said a tour bus overturned on the New England Thruway near the West Chester County line at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday.

The Worldwide Tour bus skidded on its side into a sign pole on the southbound side of Interstate 95 at Exit 14 for the Hutchinson Parkway. The sign post sheared off the top of the bus along the window line, nearly two-thirds the length of the vehicle.

The spokesman says the bus was carrying 31 to 33 passengers. He says in addition to the fatalities, six passengers were critically injured and four have been transported to hospitals.

The spokesman says 11 others sustained minor injuries.

The bus was returning from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. It belonged to World Wide Tours, which is based in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the New York Post reports.

Driver fatigue and slick roads are a bad combination.