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NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:  Tuesday, February 3, 2009

HARTFORD POLICE INVESTIGATE HIT AND RUN OF SCHOOL BUS
 

Hartford - Members of the Hartford Police Department's Patrol Division are investigating an early morning hit and run accident wherein a vehicle, apparently fleeing State Police,  rear-ended a school bus at Capitol Avenue and  Forest Street in Hartford.

At approximately 7:00 a.m. this morning Hartford Police responded to a report of an accident involving a school bus at Capitol Avenue and Forest Street.  On arrival State Police were on the scene indicating the vehicle, a Ford Taurus, had fled from them on I-84 proceeding to Broad Street and Capitol Avenue where State Police disengaged.  The evading vehicle, a 1995 Ford Taurus Station Wagon with Massachusetts registration 3YH230, then rear-ended a school bus at Capitol Avenue and Forest Street.  The operator, a Black male, subsequently abandoned the car on Forest Street in the vicinity of Hartford Public High School.  A ten year old male juvenile suffered a lower back injury as a result of the accident for which he was treated at  St. Francis Hospital.

Anyone with information as to the identity and/or whereabouts of the suspect in this incident is asked to contact Hartford Police at 860-757-4350, or call Hartford Crime Stoppers.

Anonymous, confidential tips may be made by calling Hartford Crime Stoppers at 860-722-TIPS (8477). 

Hartford Crime Stoppers is a community and business based organization that awards up to $1,000.00 for information from confidential sources that lead to the arrest of a suspect in a police investigation

860-722-TIPS (8477)

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Contact:   Nancy M. Mulroy, Public Information Officer, Hartford Police Department,  (860) 757-4021
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