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9 Students, 1 Adult Injured In Hudson Valley School Bus Crash 9 Students, 1 Adult Injured In Hudson Valley School Bus Crash
9 Students, 1 Adult Injured In Hudson Valley School Bus Crash Nine students and an adult were injured during a two-vehicle crash involving a school bus in the region. The crash occurred in Orange County around 9 a.m., Monday, Oct. 28, at the intersection of Route 52 and Route 17 in the town of Crawford. According to Crawford Police Chief Dominick Blasko, a 2021 Dodge truck was traveling eastbound in the eastbound lane of Route 52 when it collided with a 2024 First Student school bus.   The First Student Bus was transporting 43 Pine Bush students to Edward J Russell Elementary School when the collision took place, Blasko said. The bus was ma…

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by Kathy Reakes
Lifestyle
Petition Calls For Stoplight Following Fatal Crash With School Bus In Hudson Valley Petition Calls For Stoplight Following Fatal Crash With School Bus In Hudson Valley
Petition Calls For Stoplight Following Fatal Crash With School Bus In Hudson Valley An area woman who was engaged to be married to a dump truck driver who was recently killed in a vehicle crash with a school bus has started a petition to have a stoplight installed at the intersection where the crash occurred. Krista Smith said the intersection located at Route 9W and Malden Turnpike in Saugerties in Ulster County, is one of the most dangerous in the county and is asking the state Department of Transportation to install a traffic light. "Jeff was taken in the prime of his life because of the oversight by state and local DOT," Smith said. "His death was 100-percent prev…

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by Kathy Reakes
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