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A tour bus struck a jackknifed tractor-trailer collided on an icy western Vermont roadway, killing the bus driver, police said Saturday.
Vermont State Police said the truck was stopped on state Route 22A in West Haven on Friday night when the bus crested a hill, lost control and careened into the guard rails and the trailer.
The bus driver, Darnell Hannah, 59, of Millstone, N.J., was trapped in the wreckage and died from his injuries, police said. Two of the remaining 31 people on board had moderate injuries and the rest had minor injuries, according to police.
A Massachusetts tractor-trailer driver who crashed on a Vermont highway during a snowstorm and then stepped out into the roadway has been hit by another vehicle and killed.
Vermont state police say 45-year-old Lee, Mass., resident Robert Trombley was traveling on Interstate 91 in Fairlee on Friday morning when his tractor-trailer slid and hit a guardrail. Police say the tractor-trailer was stopped in the middle of the interstate, blocking both lanes.
Vermont State Police say Interstate 89 south in Bolton has reopened after a multi-vehicle pileup.
Police say no injuries were reported in the Friday crash.
Troopers said it could take some time for the traffic backup to clear.
There was no immediate word on the number of vehicles involved.
Police are advising drivers to be cautious due to the winter conditions and blowing snow.
Vermont State Police say a 26-year-old woman has died after the car she was driving struck a telephone pole.
Police said Melissa Harris of Dorset was driving on a road in Sandgate at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when she crossed the center line and struck the pole.
She was taken to a hospital with serious injuries and later died.
Vermont State Police say a skier has died in a crash at the Sugarbush Ski Resort in Warren.
The 19-year-old female, later identified as Kendra Bowers, was skiing on Saturday morning with family and friends at Mount Ellen when she lost control, went off the trail and hit a trail sign.
Police say the crash happened at the intersection of the Lower Rim Run and Lower FIS trails.
A passing snow squall has caused multiple vehicle crashes on Interstate 89 in Vermont.
Vermont State Police said the crashes happened Friday morning between Exits 11 and 15. There were at least eight separate crashes in a one-hour period. One person was taken to the hospital with a back injury.
Police said U.S. 7 in the Pittsford and Brandon area are very slippery, as is U.S. 4 from the town of Rutland to the New York State line in Fair Haven.