Man, teen injured in 4-vehicle crash
A 76-yearold man and a 15-year-old student with special needs were taken to a hospital Tuesday after a chain-reaction crash on Hasbrouck Avenue involving a car, two school buses and a city public works truck, according to Kingston police.
Two city blocks were closed to traffic for about an hour as a result of the incident around 1:50 p.m., just before nearby Kingston High School dismissed students, according to a police press release.
A 1989 Mercury Marquis driven by the male Kingston resident, whose name was not provided, was driving up Hasbrouck Avenue when he “experienced some sort of medical emergency, causing him to lose control of his car,” police said.
The Mercury struck a utility pole and a street sign before traveling through the intersection of Foxhall and Hasbrouck avenues and colliding with the rear of a school bus for special-needs students, police said. The collision caused telephone and cable wires to fall onto a Kingston Department of Public Works truck and an unoccupied school bus, police said.
After the man’s medical emergency ended, police said, his car slowed down and then rolled backward, coming to rest at a fence on the grounds of HealthAlliance Hospital’s Broadway Campus, police said.
The driver of the car was taken to the hospital for evaluation and treatment of his injuries, and the 15-year-old was taken for evaluation, police said.
Hasbrouck Avenue was closed from East Chester Street to the the intersection of O’Reilly, Garden and Prince streets while police, firefighters and emergency medical personnel cleared the road and removed the wires, according to the press release.