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The Gilchrest Road crossing accident was a grade crossing incident that occurred on March 24, 1972, in the town of Clarkstown, New York, between the hamlets of Valley Cottage and Congers, roughly 25 miles (40 km) northwest of New York City. Five students from Valley Cottage were killed, and 44 others were injured.
Five Nyack High School students were killed 50 years ago in a school bus-train crash at this Gilcrest Road railroad crossing in Congers, photographed in 2021 on the 40th anniversary of the crash.
The bus driver was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to probation; the accident also led the U.S. to require school buses to stop at all grade crossings they encounter. March 31 – South Africa – A derailment on the approach to a bridge at Potgietersrus (now Mokopane), possibly due to sabotage, killed 38 people and injures 174. [18]
October 7 – Canada – The Dorion level crossing accident: In Dorion, Quebec, a chartered school bus carrying teenage students to a dance stopped at a level crossing while a Canadian National Railway passenger train passed through, but then one or more youths deliberately raised the barrier arm although a freight train approached in the other ...
#6 1971 Girl’s Basketball Team From Local High School. Image credits: ... #7 1975 High School Photo. Image credits: morganmonroe81 #8 Kurdish Girls Attending School In Iran, 1970s.
A motorcyclist is dead following a crash involving a school bus on Monday. Rochester police said officers responded to the scene at the intersection of Lake Avenue and Burley Road around 5 p.m.
The five-days of blizzard-like conditions brought about seven fatalities in west-central New York: one Rochester-area person was found dead in their car which was buried in snow after apparently suffering a heart attack; [142] another suffered a heart attack while skidding into another car; [10] a third was killed in a car-school bus collision ...
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