Frank Gualdino, Yonkers (NY) police sergeant, died yesterday after his vehicle was involved in a multiple accident that included a municipal bus.
In a statement, the Department The Yonkers Police Department said the officer, a veteran of 24 years experience, was on duty driving an unmarked police vehicle.
The police officer was heading west on Tuckahoe Road yesterday when at about 3: 24 pm the driver of a Eastbound BMW sedan apparently lost control, crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with the police vehicle and a Westchester County Bee-Line bus.
Sergeant Gualdino, who was riding alone in the police vehicle, died at a local hospital. The driver of the sedan was hospitalized in critical condition. The bus driver sustained minor injuries, and several of his approximately 24 passengers were treated at the scene for minor injuries, police said.
The accident was still under investigation. “Our hearts are broken tonight and we ask that you keep the sergeant’s family in your thoughts and prayers,” Yonkers police said in the statement, quoted by Fox News.
Also yesterday in New York another bus suffered a strange accident. In this case, a school bus that collided with a house in the town of New Hempstead, Rockland County, leaving seven children injured.