Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...north, the snows that blanketed the Midwest and Northeast claimed at least 40 lives. In Iowa, five people died in traffic accidents after a storm with 40-m.p.h. winds dropped 8 in. of snow. Disaster was narrowly averted in Harrington Park, N.J., where a foot of snow stalled a bus at a railroad crossing. Minutes after Driver Peter Woelfel coolly ordered his 16 passengers out, a 53-car freight train tore through the crossing, smashing the bus in two. Forty-foot waves and winds of up to 90 m.p.h. along the Atlantic Coast raised fears of another oil-rig disaster...
While Doty and Messer waited on the bus with Collarusso and 13 children, Landry ran to a construction site across the street from the bus stop and returned with a Cambridge policeman...
...officer helped Colarusso from the bus and the three girls opened the emergency door to let out the children--ranging in age from five to nine years...
After the bus was empty the girls helped hold the driver's head while the officer administered first aid and raided for an ambulance...
After Colarusso was taken to Mt. Auburn Hospital, Doty and Landry went to the other bus stops and brought all the children who ride the bus to Fitzgerald Elementary back to Gold star Road to wait for another bus...