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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Witnesses reported ‘hearing screaming’ after a deadly limo crash which claimed </strong><strong>20 lives he lives of all passengers and the diver in Schoharie, New York, on Saturday<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Authorities just revealed that the driver Scott Lisinicchia of the vehicle, had prior drug busts on his record</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The limo was speeding when it smashed, witnesses said</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Limo driver Lisinicchia and all 17 people in the limo were killed when the limo crashed into a drainage ditch<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Lisinicchia, 53, was driving the wheel of the stretch limo that blew past a stop sign and plowed into the parking lot at the Apple Barrel Country Store &; Cafe parking lot in Schoharie on Saturday afternoon.<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Two bystanders were also killed by a parked car that struck them when it was hit by the limo.</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The passengers were headed to a brewery in Cooperstown for one passenger’s birthday part</strong><strong>y </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Fours sisters and two sets of newly wed couples were among those were killed in the crash</span></strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="slide-caption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300338" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Limo-crash-in-upstate-NY-5.jpg" alt="Limo crash in upstate NY 5.JPG" width="1017" height="505" />Fire and rescue team recover the Ford Expedition limousine on Saturday evening</strong></h6>
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<p class="credit">The limo failed to stop at an intersection and careened into an empty parked car in a restaurant parking lot in Schoharie, about 35 miles west of Albany, around 1:55 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.<br />
The struck car was pushed into two pedestrians, killing them, while the limo barreled into a small ravine, killing everyone in the vehicle, including the driver, officials said.<br />
Twenty people were killed when a limo heading to a surprise birthday party crashed in upstate New York, relatives and reports said Sunday.<br />
Eighteen of the dead were in the stretch SUV limo, while two were bystanders, authorities said. The group was going to a surprise birthday party, a relative of one of the victims .</p>
<h6 class="credit"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-300331" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Scott-Lisinicchia-2.jpg" alt="Scott Lisinicchia, 2" width="666" height="703" /><br />
</strong><strong>Limo driver Scott Lisinicchia, cops say was speeding when the vehicle went off the road killing him, his passengers and a pair of bystanders on saturday<br />
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<h5 class="credit"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300326" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Limo-crash-in-upstate-NY-1.jpg" alt="Limo crash in upstate NY 1.jpg" width="1033" height="688" />Debris covers an area at the site of the fatal crash in Schoharie, N.Y. on Saturday<br />
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<p>Records indicate that the driver of the limo involved in the deadly upstate limo crash was busted twice on drug charges during the past eight years, including once during a traffic stop, according to records<br />
Scott Lisinicchia, then 48, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of marijuana and an equipment violation when he was stopped while driving in Saratoga Springs on Nov. 22, 2013, <a href="https://www.saratogian.com/news/police-courts-nov/article_0eb082e7-e0a7-523c-937c-c2ae407bc38f.html">The Saratogian reported</a>the following day.<br />
Lisinicchia was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana in Saratoga Springs on July 2, 2010, <a href="https://www.saratogian.com/news/police-courts-july/article_a4c9cc1b-2f2d-58a6-8e51-bfdd4af6fac7.html">according to the Saratogian</a>.<br />
On Monday, a law enforcement official <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/limo-crash-killed-20-failed-inspection-driver-license/story?id=58358456">told ABC News</a> that Lisinicchia was the driver of the stretch limo that flew past a stop sign and plowed into the parking lot at the Apple Barrel Country Store &; Cafe parking lot in Schoharie, New York, on Saturday afternoon.<br />
Lisinicchia and all 17 passengers in the extended Ford Expedition, were killed when the limo crashed into a drainage ditch.<br />
The passengers, many of whom were related, were headed to a brewery in Cooperstown, in upstate NY for one passenger’s birthday party.<br />
Two bystanders were also killed by a parked car that struck them when it was hit by the limo.</p>
<h6 class="credit"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300332" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Abigail-Jackson-Mary-Dyson-Allison-King-and-Amy-Steenburg.1.jpg" alt="Abigail Jackson, Mary Dyson, Allison King and Amy Steenburg.1.jpg" width="662" height="441" />Victims: [L-R], Abigail Jackson, Mary Dyson, Allison King and Amy Steenburg were all killed when their birthday party was interrupted in a deadly auto crash on Saturday<br />
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<p>Tragically, four sisters according to family sources were among those who perished together in Saturday&#8217;s limo crash. Sisters <strong>A</strong>bigail Jackson, Mary Dyson, Allison King and Amy Steenburg &#8211; including one newly wed couple were all killed when their birthday party was interrupted in a deadly auto crash on Saturday<br />
Amy King Steenburg and her newlywed husband, Axel Steenburg, Axel’s brother Richard, Amy’s sister Mary King Dyson and her husband Robert Dyson, the women’s sister Abigail King Jackson and her husband Adam Jackson and a fourth sister Allison King were among the dead.<br />
Friends Shane McGowan and his wife Erin Vertucci McGowan, also newlyweds, were killed, too.<br />
Other friends who were killed include Amanda Halse, Erin’s cousin Patrick Cushing, Savannah DeVonne, Matthew Coons, Amanda Rivenburg and Rachael Cavosie<br />
Continuing the trend of family linked casualties in the incident, two pedestrians Brian Hough, a professor at SUNY Oswego and his father-in-law James Schnurr were also killed when the limo hit a stationary vehicle in its path, which then killed the two.</p>
<h6 class="credit"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300335" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Erin-Mcgowan-Shane-McGowan-and-Amanda-Halse-1.jpg" alt="Erin Mcgowan, Shane McGowan and Amanda Halse 1.JPG" width="700" height="344" />Victims: Newly weds Shane and Erin McGowan [left], and Amanda Halse were also killed in the crash</strong></h6>
<h6 class="credit"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300339" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Robert-and-Mary-Dyson-1.jpg" alt="Robert and Mary Dyson 1" width="691" height="690" />Robert and Mary Dyson as well as Mary&#8217;s three sisters were all killed<br />
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<h6 class="credit"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300336" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Adam-and-Aby-jackson-1.jpg" alt="Adam and Aby jackson 1" width="688" height="690" />Adam and Abby Jackson lost their lives along with other family members and friends. Abby was one of four sisters who killed a single auto crash on Saturday<br />
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<h6 class="credit"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300340" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Amy-and-Adam-Steenberg-1.jpg" alt="Amy and Adam Steenberg 1.JPG" width="738" height="717" />Axel and Amy Steenburg, newly wed, were also killed in the crash </strong></h6>
<p>The limo was speeding when it smashed, witnesses said.<br />
“I heard a loud bang, [and] I came out my front door to see what was going on,” resident Bridey Finnagen told local ABC affiliate News 10. “I saw a lot of people here at the Apple Barrel out in the parking lot. Then I heard screaming.<br />
“Then I saw this large van, a very unusual-looking vehicle out here in Schoharie, in the bushes and really wrecked, hit a tree,” she continued.<br />
The crash kicked off a huge emergency response that included six ambulances, three fire companies and two helicopters, the Times Union reported.<br />
“The first responders broke some windows [on the vehicles] to try to get people out,” said Finnegan. “I believe the Jaws of Life were here on the side of one of the fire trucks.”</p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300328" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Limo-crash-in-upstate-NY-3.jpg" alt="Limo crash in upstate NY 3" width="1033" height="688" /><strong>The limousine </strong><strong>blew past a stop sign and plowed into the parking lot at the Apple Barrel Country Store &; Cafe parking lot in Schoharie, before ending up in a small ravine on Saturday afternoon</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300329" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Limo-crash-in-upstate-NY-4.jpg" alt="Limo crash in upstate NY 4" width="1033" height="688" /><strong>A body is covered with a shite blanket at the scene. All 18 people aboard the limo, including the diver, were killed as well as, two bystanders<br />
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<p>State police confirmed the deaths of 20 people at the scene, but would not provide any other details pending a 3 p.m. news conference.<br />
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board moved in to investigate one of the deadliest vehicular accidents the New York region has seen in years.</p>
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Family tragedy as 20 people are killed in limo crash upstate NY – Four sisters and two sets of newly wed couples among fatalities in crash that claimed lives of birthday party attendees and two bystanders
