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The victims are:
- Kadiatou Barry, 21-year-old female, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Serigne Ndiaye, 26-year-old man, an unknown residence.
- Alioune Diop, 39-year-old man, of Bronx, New York.
The crash happened when a Honda CRV was stopped in the right lane of the highway on the southbound side while the bus, carrying between 40 and 50 people, was negotiating a right curve near mile marker 74 in Lower Paxton, Pennsylvania State Police said.
That's when the bus veered the north side of the highway and went onto the grassy roadside, hit an embankment, and overturned just before 11:50 p.m., PSP said in a release.
The roof of the Val Hool bus struck the back end of the Honda, and came to a final rest on its right side along the shoulder of the highway and roadside, police said.
As of Tuesday, 27 of the 28 patients from the crash were discharged from Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
The patients were 1 to 69 years old, with five of them under the age of 18, according to officials with the hospital.
An additional 21 patients from the crash were taken to UPMC Community Osteopathic. Two were taken to the hospital but only one remained for inpatient care as of Tuesday.
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