A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people aboard crashed and rolled on its side Friday on an interstate highway, killing five passengers and injuring many others, authorities said.

New York State Police have released the names of the five people killed in Friday's bus crash on the New York State Thruway as well as the name of the bus operator.

Trooper James O'Callaghan, a spokesperson for the New York State Police, said the bus driver is alive after the bus rolled over and shut down a large stretch of the New York Thruway. "The bus was traveling eastbound right before the Pembroke exit and for unknown reasons the vehicle lost control,