Overview
- A dump truck driver failed to brake for traffic behind a stopped Oak Knoll Elementary school bus, sparking a chain-reaction crash on North Tuckahoe Road Thursday.
- Emergency crews extricated a child trapped in a passenger vehicle, County Hazmat crews cleaned a large fluid spill, and CR555 was closed between SR322 and Braves Boulevard during the response.
- Fourteen people, including about a dozen students, were taken to area hospitals for evaluation and were later released or listed in stable, non-life-threatening condition.
- Monroe Township police say the commercial carrier tied to the dump trucks is cooperating and that motor-vehicle complaints are pending as the investigation continues.
- Reports disagree on the vehicle count—some accounts say three vehicles while others say five and name a second dump truck—so investigators are still clarifying exactly how the collision unfolded.