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Two Injured Including Student In Fairfield County School Bus Crash, Police Say Two Injured Including Student In Fairfield County School Bus Crash, Police Say
Two Injured Including Student In Fairfield County School Bus Crash, Police Say A Fairfield County student and a school bus driver were hospitalized after the driver struck a utility pole. The crash took place around 3 p.m., Monday, Feb. 28 on Mill Plain Road in Fairfield. When officers arrived on the scene they found a small First Student school bus from Tomlinson Middle School, had struck a utility pole, said Sgt. Michael Stahl, of the Fairfield Police.  The driver of the bus sustained non-life-threatening injuries and a student complaining of stomach pain were both transported to an area hospital, Stahl said. A second student was turned over to…

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by Kathy Reakes
News
COVID-19: Nearly 30 School Bus Drivers Test Positive After Birthday Party COVID-19: Nearly 30 School Bus Drivers Test Positive After Birthday Party
Covid-19: Nearly 30 School Bus Drivers Test Positive After Birthday Party Nearly 30 bus drivers working in one Connecticut city tested positive for COVID-19 following a well-attended birthday party. School bus transit company, First Student, was stopped from providing services in New Haven in late-October, once the city’s school district learned 27 of their bus drivers have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the New Haven Register. The bus shutdown is slated to end on Friday, Nov. 13. The general New Haven student population was supposed to return to in-person education on Nov. 9, but that has been delayed. Under normal circumstances, the bus company wou…

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by Kristin Palpini
Police & Fire
IDs Released For School Bus, Tractor-Trailer Drivers Killed In I-84 Crash IDs Released For School Bus, Tractor-Trailer Drivers Killed In I-84 Crash
IDs Released For School Bus, Tractor-Trailer Drivers Killed In I-84 Crash A school bus driver has been identified as one of the two people killed during a fiery I-84 crash that also involved three tractor-trailers. Verlean Douglas, 67, of South Windsor, was the driver of a First Student school bus that was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck in East Hartford, around 5 a.m., Monday, June 3, said the Connecticut State Police. The driver of the tractor-trailer that hit the back of the school bus, Norman Blair Bliss, 52, of Etters, Pennsylvania, was also killed. According to state police, two tractor-trailers and the school bus were stopped on I-84 westbound in th…

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by Kathy Reakes