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Truck Hits School Bus

February 22, 2012
The Post-Journal

A Salamanca man was charged after allegedly hitting a Jamestown Public Schools bus Wednesday morning.

Mark Aldrich, 54, of Salamanca was charged with passing a red light Wednesday at 7:22 a.m.

The Jamestown Police Department and Fire Department responded to a personal-injury motor-vehicle accident at the intersection of Willard and Winsor streets.

According to police, the accident involved four vehicle, one of which was a Jamestown Board of Education school bus.

An 11-year-old student on the school bus sustained minor injury and was treated at the scene.

Police say Aldrich was driving a 1998 Chevrolet pickup truck west in the direction of Willard Street, and he was approaching the intersection with Harrison and Winsor streets, when he allegedly passed through the red light and hit the school bus, which was heading south on Winsor Street.

Aldrich's vehicle then hit two other cars that were stopped on Harrison Street at the red light.

Aldrich's vehicle and the school bus were towed from the scene, and the intersection was closed to traffic for 45 minutes.

 
 

 

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