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| NY stretch limousine crash leaves 18 in limo and two bystanders dead |
| 2018-10-07 |
| [Star Tribune] SCHOHARIE, N.Y. ‐ A relaxed weekend afternoon turned into chaos at an upstate New York spot popular with tourists taking in the fall foliage when a crash involving a limousine left 20 people dead, officials said Sunday. A person with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that 18 of the victims in Saturday afternoon's crash at the Apple Barrel Country Store were in the limo and two were bystanders. The person was not authorized to discuss the preliminary information publicly and spoke Sunday on the condition of anonymity. Local officials told the Times Union of Albany that a limo speeding down a hill hit bystanders at the store in Schoharie, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) north of New York City. The crash "sounded like an explosion," said Linda Riley, of nearby Schenectady, who was on a shopping trip with her sisters and had been in their parked car at the time at the store, which sits near a T-junction of two New York state highways. When she got out of her vehicle, she saw a body on the ground and broken tree branches everywhere, she said. People started screaming. State police confirmed the death toll and said the crash involved two vehicles. |
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