Showing posts with label New Hampshire State Police. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Hampshire State Police. Show all posts

Sunday, January 11, 2009

50-plus-vehicle pileup clogs New Hampshire interstate

50-plus-vehicle pileup clogs New Hampshire interstate
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NEW: I-93 reopens five hours after crash involving cars, buses, 18-wheelers

Bus taking Boy Scouts on ski trip was near front of pileup, witness says

No fatalities or major injuries reported; at least 10 taken to hospitals, police say

Police say there was 10 inches of snow on the ground where wreck occurred

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From Nick Valencia
CNN

(CNN) -- More than 50 vehicles -- including a bus carrying Boy Scouts -- collided in a massive pileup on a snow-swept New Hampshire interstate Sunday, closing the highway in one direction for five hours, authorities and witnesses said.

There were no fatalities and no apparent life-threatening injuries, although rescue personnel were working to extricate people from crushed vehicles on Interstate 93 near Derry, according to Lt. Chris Aucoin of the New Hampshire State Police.

Stephanie Hasenauer was traveling with her son on a bus taking about 30 Boy Scouts on a ski trip. She said the bus came upon an auto accident at about 9 a.m. and stopped.

Then, she said, "at least 30 or 40 cars all piled up behind us." Watch the aftermath of the massive pileup »
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