Truck kills one fan, injures two

Published 11:36 pm Saturday, November 19, 2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Police say someone driving a U-Haul truck into a tailgating area at the Yale-Harvard game accelerated into three women, killing one and injuring the other two.

Police spokesman David Hartman says the truck entered a parking lot designated for pre-game tailgating Saturday in Connecticut, sped up for unknown reasons and hit the women. The truck then crashed into other U-Haul vans in the lot.

He said a 30-year-old woman was taken to Yale-New Haven hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Another woman was seriously hurt, but was in stable condition. The third woman suffered minor injuries.

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Hartman says police were questioning the driver of the U-Haul.

The tailgaters had gathered for the 128th game of the Ivy League rivalry, with Harvard looking for its fifth straight win over Yale.