Updated 4:11 p.m. ET
(CBS/AP) LITCHFIELD, Ill. - A double-decker Megabus has crashed into a concrete bridge pillar along Interstate 55 in southern Illinois.
There were an unknown amount of number of injuries and no confirmed fatalities shortly after the Thursday afternoon wreck. Television footage from the scene shows numerous emergency vehicles surrounding the bus and crews on ladders reaching inside the smashed front end of the bus.
Illinois state trooper Doug Francis said the Megabus was heading southbound when it crashed into a bridge abutment at 1:22 p.m. CT. It appears the bus blew a tire.
Twenty ambulances and two medevac choppers responded, Francis said. State police could not immediately confirm how many were on board and the seriousness of the injuries
The crash near Litchfield, about 55 miles northeast of St. Louis, shut down the interstate in both directions.
Megabus confirmed to CBS News the bus was booked for 81 passengers and was on the Chicago- St. Louis - Columbia - Kansas City line."
20 ambulances and two medevac choppers responded to the scene where a Megabus crashed into a bridge pillar in Illinois Thursday afternoon.
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A Double-decker Megabus crashed into bridge pillar on Interstate 55 Thursday afternoon.
(Credit: KLMOV)
