<p>So very sad and needless. The story is reported on MSNBC and the New Haven Register.</p>
<p>This is really terrible news.</p>
<p>That’s why Harvard banned hauls at tailgates. Kids don’t know how to handle trucks.</p>
<p>UHaul was really full of kegs? Didn t see that on the CNN report…What a horrible tragedy and this young man will have to live with it the rest of his life.</p>
<p>This from the MSNBC report: The fans had gathered for the 128th game of the Ivy League rivalry, which Harvard won 45-7 for its fifth straight victory over Yale. Three hours after the accident, the loud tailgating continued in the lot, with music blaring from large speakers and fans grilling hot dogs, sausage and hamburgers. Some students danced on top of other rental trucks.</p>
<p>The accident scene was cordoned off by yellow police tape, and a dozen numbered evidence placards were on the ground. The three rental trucks involved in the accident were still at the scene, stacked one against another from the collision. end quote</p>
<p>Is anyone else surprised Yale didn’t close down aftergame tailgates?</p>
<p>^Yeah. Maybe I’m a killjoy but I would find it really hard to enjoy a tailgate where a woman’s life ended just hours before…</p>
<p>Apparently the tailgating areas were spread out over multiple parking lots, so most students were not aware the accident had happened until the public announcement at half time in the stadium. At that point, there were still crowds of people who had not gone into the game, so they never heard of the death and injuries until afterwards.</p>
<p>Yale just cannot avoid the “accidents”. However, it may be an institutional oversight issue. The death of the graduating senior in April was the result of operating unsafe machinary alone in the middle of the night. Now a student ran over three people with a U-haul full of kegs.</p>
<p>[Yale</a> tailgate crash driver claims vehicle problem caused accident that killed 1, injured 2 | al.com](<a href=“http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/11/yale_tailgate_crash_driver_cla.html]Yale”>Yale tailgate crash driver claims vehicle problem caused accident that killed 1, injured 2 - al.com)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The attorney for a Yale student who was driving a U-Haul that fatally struck a tailgater at the Yale-Harvard game said a problem with the truck caused the accident.</p>
<p>William Dow, who represents Brendan Ross, said Sunday Ross and his family are expressing condolences to the victims for what Dow called “this tragic accident that appears to be the result of a vehicle malfunction.”</p>
<p>He did not elaborate on what the malfunction might have been. The accident killed 30-year-old Nancy Barry of Salem, Mass., on Saturday. A Yale student remained hospitalized Sunday with leg injuries, and a Harvard employee originally from Naples, Fla., was treated Saturday and released.</p>
<p>New Haven police say Ross passed a sobriety test and has cooperated with their investigation, which remained open Sunday.</p>
<p>I will echo the information that most people weren’t aware that somebody had been killed until halftime, and apparently many who heard of the accident heard that the injuries were not serious.</p>
<p>I think there shouldn’t be trucks entering the Bowl area during the same period that huge masses of people are streaming in. Perhaps they could require all trucks to arrive much earlier.</p>