Twenty killed in US ‘limousine’ crash

Twenty people have been killed in a car crash involving a limousine in the US state of New York, police say. State police said that two vehicles were involved in the crash on Saturday afternoon in the town of Schoharie. Eyewitnesses described seeing an SUV-style stretch limousine leave the road and plough into a crowd […]

Twenty people have been killed in a car crash involving a limousine in the US state of New York, police say.

State police said that two vehicles were involved in the crash on Saturday afternoon in the town of Schoharie.

Eyewitnesses described seeing an SUV-style stretch limousine leave the road and plough into a crowd of pedestrians at a store near a busy intersection.

The cause of the crash is unclear and an investigation is under way. Main roads were closed to traffic.

A phone line has been set up to help assist relatives of the victims, police added.