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Unforgiving Northway – Greyhound Bus Overturns

August 28th, 2006 · No Comments · News

This just fell into my newreader:

Numerous injuries, deaths in Northway bus crash

A Greyhound bus overturned on the Northway Monday evening, killing several people, injuring numerous others and scrambling ambulances from all over the area.

The bus was headed north on Interstate 87 about 6:45 p.m. when it overturned just before the Elizabethtown exit.

The bus was headed from New York City to Montreal when it started to pass a truck around mile marker 115.

Bus passengers said it felt like a tire on the bus blew out as they passed the truck.

The bus driver lost control of the vehicle, which crashed through the guide rails and went down a sloped embankment, overturning at least twice and landing upside down, wheels facing up, straddling the median.

The top and back of the bus were crushed, with one of its back wheels turned inward.

Some people were still trapped on the bus at 8:30 p.m.

Emergency crews from Elizabethtown, Crown Point, Westport, Keene, AuSable Forks, Peru, Keeseville and Ticonderoga were among the first-responders who rushed to help with the crash.

Twenty to 25 passengers from the bus were lying on blankets and blue stretchers, being treated.

The injured were taken to hospitals in Elizabethtown, Plattsburgh and Glens Falls. CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh was in disaster mode and called City Police Department for help with crowd control.

Former Mayor Daniel Stewart and his partner, Jon Recor, were among the first people at the crash site. They used a blanket from their car to cover some of deceased passengers.

Holy Crap! People just gotta slow down! I feel terrible.

Update:

Tire puncture led to fatal bus crash

Tire, not driver, caused bus crash

Nightmare started with a slow leak

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Bambi’s relatives can’t read

January 6th, 2006 · No Comments · Adirondack Life

Bambi Relative: The answer is “ENA” Bambi’s Aunt.

This appeared in today’s Press Republican’s Cheers and Jeers section. This deer crossing gauntlet is crossed by this writer twice each way five days a week. Oddly enough, the greatest variety of local wildlife is often seen via roadkill. This stretch has had Deer, Red Fox, Skunk, Raccoon, Beaver, Turtles, Woodchuck, Dog, Gulls, and the occasional Raptor. Oddly enough, the most daring of birds is the Crow, which is the beneficiary of most remains and the best vehicle dodger with wings.

JEERS: to those responsible for the lack of signs on a section of Interstate 87 to warn motorists that deer like to cross that superhighway in both the north- and south-bound lanes of the highway — day or night — especially during the rut. Motorists and sportsmen alike have noticed of late more deer along the highway and in the median throughout the year, but even more last fall, when the deer kill by motor vehicles increased significantly. There was seemingly new carnage every day. Of course, Bambi’s relatives can’t read, but motorists can. Why not erect “deer crossing” signs along the highway between exits 39 and 40, where a deer run has existed for years? Such signs are erected generally in the same area along State Route 9, which runs parallel to the Northway. It seems to us that, with the mild winter so far, the local deer herds will have less winter kill, creating still larger numbers in this area next autumn. Please, give the motorist unaccustomed to seeing deer in their headlights a warning of the possible danger.

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