Pickup Driver Crashes Into Bus Loaded With Farmworkers

A bus carrying tobacco workers was involved in a crash with a pickup truck in Suffield on Tuesday morning. According to police, it happened near 2075 Mountain Rd. just before 6 a.m. Twenty one adults, many of them tobacco workers, were brought to the hospital as a result. Their injuries were described as non-life-threatening. Police said 20 people were on the bus and one person was in the truck. Police said the truck was traveling eastbound when it collided with the bus. The exact cause is still under investigation. Police had the road closed for a few hours but were working to clear the scene around 8:30 a.m.