![[Valid Atom 1.0]](valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
ACCIDENT * USA - Shut Down Avon Mountain To Trucks
* Senator: Two Crashes Prompt Lawmaker To Call For MoratoriumHartford,CT,USA -WFSB (Connecticut,CT) /Eyewitness News -September 7, 2007: -- A state senator, Thomas J. Herlihy, R-District 8, has proposed an immediate moratorium on trucks traveling on Avon Mountain, following Friday's truck crashing into a furniture store... "This is unacceptable. I do not think anything more needs be said or done to prove that this road is too dangerous for trucks," Herlihy said in a statement... The senator wrote a letter to state Department of Transportation Commissioner Ralph J. Carpenter requesting the moratorium...
* Lawmakers Call For Immediate Changes Following Avon CrashSimsbury,CT,USA -NBC30 (Hartford,CT) -September 7, 2007: -- ... A truck driven by Robert Rauch crashed into Nassau's Furniture store near the intersection of Route 44 and Route 10 ... There were no injuries because, officials said, Rauch avoided traffic by driving into the building...
* Truck makes wild ride down mountain; second such incident in three years
Avon,CT,USA -Journal Register News Service, by LISA BACKUS -8 Sept 2007: -- A driver wrestled an out-of-control 18-wheeler down Avon Mountain and through a busy intersection, literally flying between a tree and telephone pole and winding up wedged into a nearby furniture store at about 11 a.m. Friday - all without serious injuries.
Labels: accidents
posted by Unknown @ 11:05 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home