Most alarming is that this is the third bus fatality just this week, and community activist Sherrell Jordon said she sees the dangers every day on Main Street in Flushing. Investigators were specifically looking at the bus' undercarriage. The bus was headed to Foxwoods Casino and would have driven through Flushing to pick up passengers at the time of the crash. Thursday, and police notified the NYPD, which examined the bus - operated by Skyliner of East Elmhurst - for hours before it was brought back to Queens. The victim suffered severe body trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene.Ĭonnecticut State Police spotted a bus fitting the description and stopped it at the Interstate 95 northbound service area in Madison, Conn., around 10 p.m.

She was knocked down and run over by the tires, with the bus proceeding north on Main, the driver evidently unaware he or she had hit someone. Officials say the victim was not in a crosswalk as she crossed at Main Street and Kissena Boulevard at 8:30 p.m., and according to the preliminary investigation, a white charter bus that was stopped at a red light while northbound on Main Street moved forward and struck the woman with its front right bumper. (WABC) - An 84-year-old woman was struck and killed by a private bus in Flushing Thursday night as she crossed the street, and authorities have identified a bus found in Connecticut is the one that was involved in the incident.

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