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A school bus driver suffered minor injuries to his face after being run off the road by a 20-ton coal truck. The bus was carrying high school students on their way to participate in a college science class. The bus driver was able to turn the bus and avoid the coal truck before it hit the bus. None of the students on the bus suffered an injury. They are calling the bus driver a hero.

One of the teachers on the bus says he was grateful to have an alert and experienced driver who knew what to do to avoid a potentially deadly accident. The bus driver received facial lacerations from shattered glass and was treated for these injuries by medical personnel. The bus driver swerved and landed in a ditch. The impact caused the windshield to crack.
Further investigation is needed to determine the exact cause of this accident. The coal truck may have been trying to pass the bus and miscalculated the bus's speed. The coal truck crossed into the same lane as the bus and nearly caused a head-on collision. Mechanical error or medical emergency may be to blame which is why further investigation is needed.

The students were on their way to participate in a college science class as part of a dual enrollment program that offers college credit to high school students. The students were taken back to the school and were given the choice of remaining at the school or taking the rest of the day off. School officials and local law enforcement are currently working together to piece together all the details of the car accident. The student trip will probably be rescheduled for later in the school year.

Damage to the school bus is unknown at this time. A reporter who has seen these accidents in The Bronx and Westchester claims that the bus may be used as evidence if charges against the coal truck driver are filed. No charges have been filed at this time by the district attorney or the school district. Charges may be filed, however, if new evidence is discovered.

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All the victims are now grown and the suspect now deceased, but the witness are still coming forward to testify against a Connecticut doctor who police believe may have molested hundreds, or even thousands, of children over a thirty-year span of time.
A civil case in Waterbury Superior Court is the first of about 90 to reach the trial. They are all suing St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center of Hartford, alleging that hospital official did nothing to stop the abuse by the doctor who died in 1998 and never faced any criminal charges.
One victim, now 50-years-old, told the court that the doctor took pictures of him and his sister performing sex acts together. The doctor abused him over a three year period, starting in 1969 when the victim was only eight years old. Parents and hospital officials were told the victim was being used in a human growth study.
“He took pornographic pictures of us in his office,” testified the victim to New York Injury Lawyers. “He asked us to disrobe. He asked us to insert things.” The jury saw these photographs, along with graphic photos of other victims who would testify later.
The abuse was only recently revealed in 2007 when the owner of the doctor’s former home cracked open a basement wall while renovating the house. Inside that wall were tens of thousands of slides and videos of children engaged in sexual activities or posed in a sexual manner.
As for the hospital, they don’t dispute the abuse, but they also said to New York Injury Lawyers the officials there had no idea what was going on and should not be held liable.
The hospital’s attorney told the jury the doctor, and the doctor alone, was responsible, not the hospital. According to him, no one ever complained about the abuse. “We are all angry at what he did,” the attorney said. “We’re certainly not in any way defending his actions.”
No one thought of the doctor as anything other than a respected physician who was engaged in a great deal of legitimate study and research, as well. He did take measurements from the children, though he never actually published his findings. He resigned in 1993, due to molestation accusations, but was never charged, and his license to practice medicine was revoked in 1995. As it would be in Staten Island and Westchester County.

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