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SUV, minibus collide in Walmart parking lot

By Vera Chinese

VERA CHINESE PHOTO | There was one passenger in this bus for the developmentally disabled when it collided with an SUV Monday.

A disabled person was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center after a white minibus collided with an SUV outside WalMart in Riverhead Monday afternoon, police said.

That person, who was taken to the hospital for observations as per company protocol, was the lone passenger in a bus operated by the state’s chapter of The Arc, a nonprofit group that supports the developmentally disabled and their families, called NYSARC.

The two vehicles crashed about 2:15 a.m. in the Route 58 store’s parking lot.

It was not immediately clear if anyone was faulted in the crash.

The bus was towed from the scene.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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