Tour bus driver dead in Vt. truck crash
WEST HAVEN, Vt. — A tour bus struck a jackknifed tractor-trailer
collided on an icy western Vermont roadway, killing the bus driver,
police said Saturday.
Vermont State Police said the truck was stopped on state Route 22A in
West Haven on Friday night when the bus crested a hill, lost control
and careened into the guard rails and the trailer.
The bus driver, Darnell Hannah, 59, of Millstone, N.J., was trapped
in the wreckage and died from his injuries, police said. Two of the
remaining 31 people on board had moderate injuries and the rest had
minor injuries, according to police.
Eight patients were transported to Porter Hospital in Middlebury and
24, including the truck driver, were taken to Rutland Regional Medical
Center.
Shari Owens, a spokeswoman for Rutland, said one person was admitted
in good condition and the rest were treated and released by 2:30 a.m.
Porter Hospital declined to comment on the conditions of its crash
victims, citing privacy rules.
Police did not release the name of the tour bus company. Neither the
point of origin nor destination of the bus was immediately known.
The road as ice-covered at the time of the crash and police called
the conditions a contributing factor. Anyone who witnessed the crash is
asked to call state police in Rutland
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