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Sunday, February 05, 2006
HC bus involved in fatal crash
(Originally posted Sat. at 7:15 p.m., updated at 8:57 a.m.)

Two teenagers were killed Saturday in a collision with the bis carrying the Holy Cross men's team back to Worcester following the Crusaders win at Lafayette.

Police said the car carrying the two teen-aged males was headed west on Route 22 when it cross the median and struck the eastbound bus head on.

Lopatcong Twp. police Sgt. Jason Garcia told The Express-Times "the wreck was 'about one of the worst' he's seen."

The driver of the bus was transported to a local hospital. None of the people in the Holy Cross travel party were injured.

Reports of the accident first filtered back to Kirby Sports Center around halftime of the HC-Lafayette women's game, when word came that the bus that carried the women's team from Worcester had been sent to the scene to pick up the men's team. A local bus was chartered to take the women back to Worcester.

Bill Gibbons, the HC women's coach, said there had been at least one fatality, but that the team was safe, though "shaken up."
Published at 9:45 AM by Hoop Time.
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