The accident started in the northbound lanes. One box truck trying to pass another when they bumped at high speed and one lost control jumping the divider into the oncoming tractor trailer. Its a complex accident scene in a really bad spot. Reporter evidence spread over hundreds of yards of pavement on a friday afternoon where that corridor is very heavy. Most of the traffic is being diverted. Its one behind the other. Nobody moving for two hours. Reporter state police tried to turn southbound thruway motorists around but ended up filtering on to local streets to get past the wreck. The Ripple Effect lasted all afternoon. 17 is a dead stop. Reporter how long have you been stuck . Four hours. Going from suffern to spring valley. Reporter how long is it taking you. An hour and a half. Reporter and youre not there yet . No. Youre still in suffern, you know. Yeah. Reporter thousands were caught in it but the frustration vanished once they saw the cause. This truck driver missed all his app
Reporter the new york closed. Its very, very difficult to get through that area. This summer friday has been aggravated by a dreadful accident 15 miles north. This morning, this is suffern new york this morning. A box truck carrying mattresses jumped the Center Divider and hit a tractor of exit 15b. The two occupants of the northbound box truck are dead. The driver of the southbound tractortrailer is hospitalized. Serious but stable condition. And traffic as a result all afternoon has been really slammed on the thruway, i87, route 17, route 202, the local roads in Rockland County and its just been really a mess. Its just starting to loosen up a little bit but its still very difficult. The monitors say its difficult in the immediate area. Police are questioning two other vehicles involved in the crash. Another truck headed northbound and a private vehicle. They are trying to find out what happened before the box truck jumped the median. But two people were killed. The tractortrailer dri
Afternoon. A grey suv parked next to it also stuck. Cell phone video captures the bus driver stuck in his seat as witnesses work to try to free him and also the other people on board. I climbed up and looked at the bus driver. Reporter he was driving by when he saw the aftermath. He pulled over and ran out to help. Shirt. This one lady, she was screaming because she was really scared and nervous. So we helped her get out. An older gentleman claims he was fine, but he was the first one that they took to the hospital. And then this other guy, his leg was broken and he couldnt get out. So he put both his feet over the window and i tried to take him down from there. Reporter one person he couldnt help was the badly pinned driver. I tried to move the glass and the bricks and everything that was blocking him. But it was too much and i couldnt him get out. Reporter First Responders arrived and were able to free the driver using the jaws of life. Chopper 2 was over the scene at boulevard. They
Crashing through. A bus cheers off the side of a building in queens, and strangers left scrambling, trying to get the victims among all the rubble, and tonight, a woman who was inside one of the apartments is talking only to cbs 2. Good evening. Im kristine johnson, and maurice is off tonight. Late this evening, that bus was taken away, but a gaping hole remains. As cbs 2s Jessica Schneider is joining us now, shes live in front of it at regal park. Jessica . Reporter kristine, quite the sight out here. The impact of the crash tearing down one of the walls in the building. One woman was up on the second floor there, and you can see directly into her living room, and now just her shelf of books, they are exposed to the street. The woman says she had seconds to react. I just literally flew into the wall, turned around, and saw the back of my apartment missing, and i ran out. Reporter Collette Landers was about to get in the shower when the bus collided with her wall. There was snow screec
That was an extraordinary thing to happen. Reporter the dow down 8. 5 on monday. At the opening of the asian market, they saw some improvement, but china failed to gain tax. The u. S. , europe, and china are the three economies that matter the most around the world. Reporter the dow finished down 558 points, the worst singleday loss in a year. Onethird one of my retirement is dependent on the stock market. Reporter for those wondering what to do . How about nothing . How about sitting tight and sticking to your game plan . When you decide to take a knee jerk decision, you usually regret it. I would hate to see people look back and say gosh, why did i get out again . I had 10 or 20 or 30 years to go before i needed the money. Reporter the major index closing down 7. 6 , and we will see how the markets on wall street will do later this morning. Janelle burrell, cbs 2 news. Another day of holding on tight. Traffic and weather on the 2s, john, good morning to you. Buy fear and sell enthusi