Dump Truck

The second of two 11-year-old triplets who survived a Burlington County school bus crash last month that killed their sister has left Cooper University Hospital in Camden, a spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday. Sophie Tezsla was moved Tuesday to a rehabilitation facility, according to the spokeswoman. Natalie Tezsla was released from Cooper on Feb. 22, nearly a week after Isabelle Tezsla was killed when a dump truck struck their bus in Chesterfield Township, forcing it into a traffic pole.

Funeral services will be Friday for Isabelle Tezsla, an 11-year-old triplet killed this month in a Burlington County school-bus crash that her two sisters survived. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the Feb. 16 crash involving the bus and a dump truck at County Route 528 and Old York Road in Chesterfield Township. Isabelle, a sixth grader, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her sister Natalie was discharged last week from Cooper University Hospital in Camden.

Services will be held Friday for Isabelle Tezsla, 11, who was killed Feb. 16 in a South Jersey bus crash that also injured her two sisters. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash, which involved the school bus and a dump truck. Isabelle died as a result of that crash. Her sister Natalie was discharged last week from Cooper University Hospital in Camden. Their sister, Sophie, remains in critical condition at the hospital, as does 11-year-old Jonathan Zdybel.

The new bus driver in a fatal bus crash in Burlington County inched past a stop sign because of bad sight lines at the intersection, the National Transportation Safety Board said this morning. Friday's collision with a dump truck in Chesterfield killed an 11-year-old triplet, Isabelle Tezsla, and seriously injured her two sisters and a boy. Natalie Tezsla was discharged Wednesday afternoon from Cooper University Hospital in Camden, but Sophie and 11-year-old Jonathan Zdybel remained in critical condition.

One of two triplets injured in a Burlington County school bus crash that killed their sister was released Wednesday from Cooper University Hospital in Camden, a hospital spokesman woman said. Natalie Tezsla, 11, of Chesterfield, was discharged around 3 p.m., according to the spokeswoman. She was flown to Cooper with her sister Sophie and fellow Chesterfield Elementary School student Jonathan Zdybel, also 11, on Feb. 16 after a dump truck hit the bus in which they were riding and forced it into a traffic light pole.

Authorities were called to a school-bus accident in Cumberland County, N.J., on Tuesday even as police and other investigators continued to probe last week's deadly crash involving a school bus and a dump truck in Burlington County. Seven children and a motorist were checked at area hospitals after Tuesday's crash in Upper Deerfield, which involved a school bus, a truck, and two cars. No one was seriously hurt. Three children seriously injured in Thursday's accident in Chesterfield remained hospitalized.

Authorities were called to a school-bus accident in Cumberland County, N.J., on Tuesday even as police and other investigators continued to probe last week's deadly collision between a school bus and a dump truck in Burlington County. Seven children and a motorist were checked at area hospitals after Tuesday's crash in Upper Deerfield, which involved a school bus, a truck, and two cars. No one was seriously hurt. Three children seriously injured in Thursday's accident in Chesterfield remained hospitalized.

Thursday's deadly crash of a school bus and a dump truck in Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, has drawn the attention of the National Transportation Safety Board, whose investigators are expected to be at the scene for several days. The federal probe will take about a year to complete, an NTSB official said Friday. Safety issues, especially the use of seat belts, were of interest to the agency, which selectively investigates highway accidents. "The only information we are going to present is factual information," chief investigator Pete Kotowski said at a news conference in Chesterfield.

A DUMP TRUCK yesterday collided with a bus carrying elementary-school children in Chesterfield, Burlington County, killing an 11-year-old daughter of a state trooper and critically injuring three other students - two of them the triplet sisters of the dead girl, authorities said. The accident occurred just after 8 a.m. at a four-way intersection in Chesterfield, a town south of Trenton. It sent the bus, carrying 25 students, crashing sideways into a traffic-signal pole, crumpling the side.