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Bus with NY prison visitors tips over, killing 1.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Bus with NY prison visitors tips over, killing 1. 7-4-09 LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) ? A bus transporting visitors to upstate prisons rolled onto its side and plowed into a rock ledge on a highway in the Adirondack mountains early Sunday, killing a woman pinned underneath and hurting nine other people, authorities said. Police were investigating what caused the 3:15 a.m. wreck on the Adirondack Northway in the town of Lake George, about 60 miles north of Albany. The bus tipped onto its side, slid and veered into the rock a quarter-mile south of the highway's Exit 21, Queensbury fire Chief Joseph DuPrey told the Glens Falls Post-Star newspaper. The impact tore down at least 50 yards of guide rails and left the highway strewn with food wrappers and fliers about services for prisoners' families, the newspaper said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).