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NEW YORK — A passenger van carrying members of a church flipped over on the New York State Thruway on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring eight others, authorities said.
Fourteen people were in the van when it crashed on the northbound side of Interstate 87 in Woodbury, about 55 miles north of New York City, about 3 p.m., said state police and the Thruway Authority. It appeared to be a single-vehicle crash.
The right rear tire blew out on the 1997 van, and the vehicle went into a rumble strip and rolled over into the grassy median separating the north and southbound lanes, said state police Troop T commander Maj. Robert Meyers. Some of the passengers were ejected, and the van came to a rest upside-down.
