Hartford Man Dies After Crashing Car Into School Bus: Police

HARTFORD, CT — A Hartford man has died after the car he was driving hit a school bus and became lodged underneath it in Bloomfield this morning, police said.

Bloomfield police responded to the scene of the crash at around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, and when officers arrived, they found a passenger vehicle lodged under the back end of the school bus.

Paramedics extracted the vehicle's driver and pronounced him dead at the scene. The man's identity has not yet been released, though police said he was a 33-year-old Hartford resident.

An initial investigation has found that the bus was slowing down and pulling over to the right side of the road to pick up a student when it was hit from behind by the passenger vehicle, police said.

The bus driver reported back pain and was transported to an area hospital, police said. None of the children on the bus complained of injuries, and they were taken to school on an alternate school bus that was sent to the scene.

The crash happened in the area of 1333 Blue Hills Ave., Bloomfield, and the area was closed to traffic so the North Central Municipal Accident Reconstruction Squad, which has taken over investigation of the incident, could investigate.

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