Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, April 08, 2003
7 People from China Killed in Traffic Accident in US
Seven people, all educators from universities in China, were killed when their van went out of control on a slush-covered highway in central Pennsylvania, U.S. and plunged down a bank, state police said.
Seven people, all educators from universities in China, were killed when their van went out of control on a slush-covered highway in central Pennsylvania, U.S. and plunged down a bank, state police said.
Spring suffered a chilly setback Monday as an April snowstorm barreling along a 1,000-mile path from the Plains to the East Coast buried emerging tulips and daffodils, knocked out power and canceled baseball home openers from Chicago to New York.
More than a foot of wet, heavy snow fell on parts of Nebraska and southern Minnesota, and a foot was possible in the highlands of Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains and northern New Jersey. Schools closed from Nebraska to New York City, where 4 inches fell in Central Park before the snow turned to freezing rain and sleet during the evening.
Two traffic deaths were blamed on the storm in Nebraska, with two others in Wisconsin. Around the Great Lakes, the snow was preceded by a weekend ice storm blamed for four deaths in Michigan and three in upstate New York.