Roberto Eduardo Mata Lopez and one person killed and several injured in collision involving taxi on Bennie Road in Cortlandville, New York
TC3 student and taxi driver killed in Cortlandville crash
The taxi van left the road and struck a utility pole and then a tree. The driver and one of the occupants, a TC3 student, were pronounced dead at the scene. The remaining seven passengers were transported to local hospitals.
UPDATED: TC3 student among two killed in taxi van crash
In the statement, President Orinthia Montague says that one of the two killed in the early morning crash was second-year student, Roberto Eduardo Mata Lopez. The college said Lopez was from the Dominican Republic, and was in the school's Global Connections program.
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