Four victims of fiery Avon crash identified

WFSB-TV Eyewitness News ^ | August 2, 2005 | AP

[LurkedLongEnough]

AVON (AP) -- The names of all four people killed in Friday's fatal accident in Avon have now been made public.

The dump truck driver has been tentatively identified as 41-year-old Abdul Raheem Naafi, also known as Terrance Stokes, who had a Stamford address.

The chief medical examiner's office says 60-year-old Maureen Edlund of Canton and 54-year-old Barbara Bongiovanni of Torrington were killed in the wreck at the bottom of Avon mountain when the dump truck driver lost control and smashed into other vehicles.

Television and newspaper reports identified a third person who died, 42-year-old Paul "Chip" Stotler, of New Hartford, a father of five daughters.

[LurkedLongEnough]

This accident happened July 29, last Friday, and made national news. It took an unusually long time to identify the driver whose dumptruck slammed into the intersection full of commuters.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Connecticut.

[SlowBoat407]

The "also known as" is troublesome.

[JeeperFreeper]

Any evidence that "Abdul" a/k/a "Terrence" decided to go jihad with his truck? After the D.C. snipers, I get suspicious about muslims.

[brytlea]

What does that even mean, "also known as"? That is not like a legal name change, is it?
susie

[Mr. Jeeves]

...lost control...

Abdul Raheem Naafi

One Mohammed Atta "lost control" of a vehicle not long ago, too.

[Just A Nobody]

It took an unusually long time to identify the driver ...

Uh huh ............ ! Trying to protect "Terrance" and his kin?

[MudSlide]

Maybe Terrance aka Abdul was doing his little part for the Muhajadeen thingy..

[wideawake]

42-year-old Paul "Chip" Stotler, of New Hartford, a father of five daughters.

Those poor little girls.

[SlowBoat407]

More likely, Terrance Stokes was the name he was born with, and then converted to Islam, taking on his terrorist Muslim name.

[MudSlide]

Probably converted while doing time in the pen.

[duffthor]

Kinda like Lew Alcindor.

[brytlea]

I kinda wondered about that. Somehow it didnt' seem likely that it was the other way around.
susie

[duffthor]

I guess you don't generally see a lot of Muslims converting to Presbyterian.

[MudSlide]

What was Alcinder in the pen for

[eyespysomething]

Barbara Bongiovanni

Bon Jovi's name was Bongiovanni.

[duffthor]

My bad...I was referring to the previous post...regarding converting and changing names and stuff.

[brytlea]

Yeah, that would be unhealthy.
susie

[duffthor]

it'll happen one day. Over a nice neighborhood picnic or pig-roast, Muhammad Al Sharif will announce he has changed his name to Albert Gore (freudian?) and that he intends to begin coming to services at the local Baptist church or something.

[SlowBoat407]

Lou Alcindor became Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Muslim in the cockpit!!!

[duffthor]

Oh man!!! I never thought of that!! As a long time Laker fan, I just thought it was cool to see Kareem on a movie.

[MudSlide]

Probably where Atta got the idea.

[rogue yam]

I see you like gladiator movies!

[brytlea]

I always thought Lou Alcindor was such a cool name.
Kareem sounds too much like Cream. Oh well.
susie

[Publius6961]

I wonder what "Terrance Stokes" looks like, LOL!

[sofaman]

not sure ....but he changed his name to Kareem Abdul Jabong...and then got busted for possession of pot...

[sofaman]

Jabbar...not Jabong...silly me

[Black Tooth]

Thought this would interest you.

[Man50D]

Let's see now, four people died, fifteen were injured, four critically and many people lost their loved ones and friends and all of you post comments about name changes,Muslims and movies but not one thought about those who have suffered. That's a sad commentary on our society. It seems as though wideawake is the only one who gets it!

[eyespysomething]

but not one thought about those who have suffered.

You can read minds?

[Just A Nobody]

Oh, I get it ... every day! Prayers for ALL that were killed, maimed, injured or left behind.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455019/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455477/posts

[SlowBoat407]

Pat yourself on the back. You care.

[eyespysomething]

Me too, but I was wondering how that poster knew what I was thinking, because he was wrong.

[Just A Nobody]

Really sorry eyespy - I meant to post to Man50D from post #29.

[brytlea]

We don't get it because we are talking about something other than what you think we should be? I think maybe you don't get it.
susie

[eyespysomething]

Z-ok.

[taxed2death]

No news here. Most every Tri-axle on CT roads is overloaded by a minimum of 15 tons......

Everyone in the state knows about it but refuses to do anything about it.

[duffthor]

Lighten up Francis! -- Sgt Hulka

[nutmeg]

Television and newspaper reports identified a third person who died, 42-year-old Paul "Chip" Stotler, of New Hartford, a father of five daughters.

My husband and I were very saddened to learn of Chip's death. We didn't know him well, but his wife is an acquaintance of ours. Tragically, he leaves her behind and five beautiful little girls, along with many family members and friends.

Also, I'm fairly certain that another victim of this horrific accident was a former co-worker of mine from years ago. He has multiple injuries, but is expected to recover fully, from what I understand.

Please pray for all involved in this accident...

Thank you LurkedLongEnough for starting this thread.

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

[nutmeg]

Please see post #39

[muir_redwoods]

The truck and the trucking company were trouble. The truck had been pulled off the road with service issues many times and the company was cited a half dozen times recently for a variety of violations. Lastly, the driver was on the job only a week. I think he had too much truck for his skill level and the hill he came down is pretty steep with a pretty good right bend at the light at the bottom.

[Man50D]

Lighten up Francis! -- Sgt Hulka

Read post #39 and tell the family of Paul Stotler to lighten up. I only hope if you or someone you know is in a similar situation people will be more understanding and be more respectful than you have shown the victims.

[Man50D]

You can read minds?

I can read your posts. If you didn't intend to post what you thought then you should not have posted the comment.

[Man50D]

Pat yourself on the back. You care.

Apparently you don't.

[Man50D]

We don't get it because we are talking about something other than what you think we should be? I think maybe you don't get it.

The thread was about the crash nothing else. Out of respect for the victims and thier families it's reasonable and appropriate to stick to the topic. That's not asking too much. If you want to comment on something else then create another thread.

[brytlea]

Gosh, I'm sorry to hear that. My sympathies and my prayers to the families and to you.
susie

[StarFan]

Disregard my freepmail as I just got to your ping. How truly sad.

[brytlea]

The thread was about the crash nothing else. Out of respect for the victims and thier families it's reasonable and appropriate to stick to the topic. That's not asking too much. If you want to comment on something else then create another thread.

Thank you for playing thread monitor.

susie

[livius]

Thanks for the details.

[Man50D]

Thank you for playing thread monitor.

Thank you for caring about the victims and their families.