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School Bus, SUV Collide On Staten Island Street

2009_09_sicrash.jpg Yesterday afternoon, a school bus carrying 26 children and a SUV collided into each other—and then into a home's front fence—on Kingdom Avenue at Billou Street in Staten Island's Huguenot section. The Staten Island Advance reports that the Our Lady Star of the Sea School bus had been traveling on Kingdom, while witnesses say the SUV "rolled through a stop sign on Billiou Street, into the path" of the bus. "The front of the bus on the driver's side smashed into the Cadillac's passenger side. The driver's side of the SUV was wedged against a tree toppled in the crash." An 11-year-old student and the SUV's two passengers were treated for minor injuries. The homeowner who found the two vehicles in her front yard told the Post the surrounding streets are a mess, "Everybody is in such a hurry, people run through these [stop] signs all the time. Somebody’s going to get killed," while another neighbor opined, "No one can see the stop signs — or they don’t care. The Escalade blew the stop sign but I’m sure the bus was supposed to be on his block either."

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  • Spirit of 76

    Police did not immediately cite either driver.

    Big surprise. Worthless NYPD. The driver should be charged with 27 counts of reckless endangerment. One for each kid and one more for the driver.

  • Clarice City

    Really? An Escalade? I thought only reposnsible drivers drove Escalades.

  • imadick

    it's not about rolling through stop-signs. it's about not looking before entering an intersection.

  • Mr. Shankly

    Mom likely yammering into cell using left hand, blinding her to the left. Dipshit.

  • sexisicilian

    Exactly, they all try to up each other on SI; meanwhile these idiots get big trucks & DO NOT know how to drive to begin with & then text & yap with no consideration for the rest of us. Unfortunately, they only learn when they kill someone.

  • NannyState

    Mere killing could get them to learn? You are a naive one, my friend.

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