Automobile Accidents

• Middletown Bus Accident Injures Students

  James Sabatini | January 19, 2007 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  MIDDLETOWN -- A teacher's Jeep slammed into a school bus in Middletown this morning, sending several students to the hospital. A Jeep driven by a Morris Elementary School teacher collided with the school bus shortly after 8 this morning on Middletown's Kaplan Drive. Middletown police tell News Channel 8 that icy roads played a part in the crash.As many as 14 people with minor injuries are being...

• Elderly Driver Injures 27 Pedestrians at Sailfest in New London

  Staff Writer | July 08, 2006 7:26 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  This afternoon, 89 year-old driver Robert Laine of Wallingford, CT. drove through a crowd of pedestrians in an accident at Sailfest in New London. At least 27 persons were taken to the hospital for injuries ranging from serious to bumps and bruises. This accident is eerily similar to one in California a year or two ago and raises questions about the accident risks elderly drivers pose in an...

• Fatal Car Crash, I-84W in West Hartford Claims Life

  James Sabatini | May 30, 2006 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Over the weekend, a fatal car crash on Interstate 84 in the Town of West Hartford has taken one life and injured another. The driver of a car lost control around a curve, sailed over the grassy median and crashed into an oncoming car. According to the Hartford Courant:The eastbound traveling car flew over the median and crashed into a westbound car. The crash set off a four car collision...

• Truck Accident Causes I-95 Ramp, Lane Closures

  James Sabatini | May 25, 2006 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The Kimberly Avenue off ramp and the right and center lanes od South I-95 were closed recently when a tractor-trailer went off the bridge of the exit 44 ramp. The noon accident took over three hours to clear.According to the Hartford Courant:Traffic was backed up northbound on I-95 to Exit 41, southbound traffic on I-95 was bumper-to-bumper all the way to the Pearl Harbor Memorial "Q-Bridge,"...