WHITNEY POINT (AP) -- Update from the Associated Press:

Police say the tour bus that crashed on I-81 near Binghamton last night was going too fast during a downpour when it crashed and flipped over.

The bus was mainly carrying Polish tourists at the time.Thirty people were left with minor injuries. Fourteen of those victims have already been treated at a hospital and released, including a woman who was trapped beneath the bus and had to be rescued by emergency crews.

The crash occurred on a rural stretch of Interstate 81 near Whitney Point, about 15 miles north of Binghamton. The bus was traveling from Niagara Falls to Trenton, N.J.

This is the third serious crash over the past month on highways in Central New York and the Southern Tier.

On July 17th, five people were killed and several others were injured when the farm tractor they were riding in was hit by an alleged drunk driver in Yates County.

On July 22nd, the driver of a tractor trailer crashed into the back of a tour bus. The driver of the truck was killed and thirty people on the bus were injured.

Two out of the three accidents involved tour buses. Does this make you wary of taking a tour bus?

Update from the Associated Press:

A tour bus carrying more than 30 passengers flipped over on an upstate highway Wednesday night and landed upside-down in a ditch, injuring several people and trapping at least one woman underneath it.

Four people were seriously injured and 36 others suffered minor injuries, a dispatcher for the Broome County Sheriff's Office said.

The accident, the latest in a string of bus crashes in the Northeast this year, occurred on Interstate 81 in a southbound lane near Whitney Point, a scenic village of about 1,000 residents. The bus, which appeared to have no markings on its sides, sat in the ditch on its roof with its wheels in the air.

First responders worked frantically to free a woman who was trapped under the bus, Whitney Point Fire Department Chief Nicholas Sculley said.

The woman, who was conscious and alert, had been partially ejected through the bus roof escape hatch, which had come open. She was lying on her back with her head under the bus, in a gap between the ground and the bus. She was rescued with no obvious external injuries other than a couple of cuts to her face, Sculley said.

"A centimeter either way," he said, "and it would have been a different outcome."

State Police Sgt. Todd Burdick told the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin that the bus was coming from Niagara Falls and heading to Trenton, N.J. He said weather and speed too fast for conditions caused the accident.

"At the time, there was a severe downpour," Burdick told the paper.

Paramedics were evaluating people, many with neck and chest injuries, at the scene.

At Lourdes Hospital, in Binghamton, about 20 miles south of Whitney Point, clinical manager Barb Anderson said people from the bus were getting X-rays and tests and it was unclear how many would be admitted. There were no young children among the injured, but two patients appeared to be in their teens, she said.

The southbound side of I-81 was closed around Whitney Point because of the accident, Department of Transportation spokesman Dave Hamburg said. The cause of the accident hadn't been determined.

Tour bus industry safety has drawn heightened attention since the March 12 crash of a bus returning to New York City's Chinatown after an overnight excursion to a Connecticut casino. Fifteen people were killed when the bus flipped onto its side and struck a pole, peeling off its roof.

A passenger has said the driver fell asleep; the driver has said he was alert and well-rested. That crash is being investigated by state police and the National Transportation Safety Board.

Since that crash, New York has sidelined hundreds of buses and bus drivers in a stepped-up program to stop buses for safety evaluations. Many drivers were found to have had multiple driver's licenses with histories of violations.

Just days after that deadly crash, a luxury tour bus from New York City's Chinatown to Philadelphia crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike, one of the nation's most heavily trafficked highways, killing the driver and another person. The bus entered the grass along the center median before striking an overpass support and hitting an embankment.

Last month, a fiery crash between a tractor-trailer and a tour bus in upstate New York killed the truck driver and injured at least 30 passengers on the bus.

Previous Information:

Emergency crews are on the scene of a tour bus rollover accident on Interstate 81 South in the Southern Tier. The tour bus was carrying more than 30 passengers.

The call for help came in just after 7:00 p.m.

A dispatcher for the Broome County Sheriff's Department says four people were seriously injured and 36 others suffered minor injuries. He says the accident happened Wednesday night on Interstate 81 in a southbound lane near the village of Whitney Point.

Two hospitals say they're treating a total of 16 patients from the crash, most with minor injuries. One woman was trapped under the bus but was rescued.

Wilson Medical Center spokesman John Tooley says paramedics are treating people at the scene.

Tour bus industry safety has drawn heightened attention since a New York crash in March killed 15 people.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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