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[UPDATE] Video: One Killed, Two Injured In Tailgating Accident Before Harvard-Yale Football Game

One woman was killed, and two others were injured after a U-Haul van crashed into a crowd tailgating before the Yale-Harvard Football game today. According to police, a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman was killed in the accident just after 10 a.m. this morning in a parking lot at Yale. Police spokesman David Hartman confirmed the other two female victims are hospitalized—one in critical but stable condition, and the other with minor injuries. Update: Watch video of the aftermath of the accident below.

The tailgaters had gathered for the 128th game of the Ivy League rivalry. Thus far, it's unclear what caused the the driver of the U-Haul to accelerate and run into the three victims before crashing into a smaller U-Haul—the driver has been taken by police for questioning. The Yale Daily News has identified the driver as a Yale student.

According to the Hartford Courant, photos from witnesses at the scene of the accident showed several kegs and alcoholic beverages inside the two parked U-Hauls-but it was not clear whether the U-Haul involved in the accident also had alcohol in it.

Update: Below, watch video taken from just after the accident occurred. You can hear someone crouched near one victim say, "We're not getting a pulse," as the cameraman notes the ambulance hasn't arrived yet.

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  • splicernyc

    What's going on at :15? Are they praying? I guess that's a good way for people who will only get in the way to stay clear.

  • Mike_Nesmith

    Seems another thing that died that day was the English language.

  • Is posting a video of someone's death really necessary?  It's sad that someone's first impulse is to record; it's sadder that Gothamist feels like it's okay to expose the most private of moments to anonymous commenters.  Hopefully few people will click it to watch.

  • crusher153

    guess he couldn't get into harvard!

  • bobbyjfromtheuk12

    just got accepted into Skull and Bones too.

  • Sorry for the tragedy but this is just more proof that football and beer need to be replaced by frisbee* and herb....

    *oldschool aimless-stoned-in-the-sunshine frisbee....none of this competitive ultimate yuppie crap...

  • Ragingsemi

    WTF is the ghetto dude doing at a Yale-Harvard game anyway?

  • He's a suburban kid PRETENDING to be "ghetto", probably because he's a massive douchebag

  • splint

    Scholarship

  • Ragingsemi

    Haaahahahaha...sure he is.

  • rexreed

    This video correspondent is obviously a Yale Man.

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