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11 Hurt in West Philly SEPTA Bus Crash; NO Airplane Crash on LBI; Juneteenth Made National Holiday

by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 06/17/21 9:41 pm | updated: 06/17/21 9:41 pm

Philadelphia Police are investigating after at least 11 people were injured in a crash involving a SEPTA bus and other vehicles in West Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon, 6/17. It happened around 4:15 p.m. at S. 57th Street and Larchwood Avenue in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood. The crash involved a Route G SEPTA bus and 4 other cars. Eight people on the bus were injured and 3 in the other vehicles. They were all non life-threatening injuries. The cause is under investigation.

UPDATE: 17 people were injured in the crash. No serious injuries. The investigation revealed a car ran a red light and struck the bus. The bus then hit 3 parked cars.

The Ocean County Sheriff's Office says that reports of an airplane crash off the coast of Long Beach Island on Thursday afternoon, 6/17, are "unfounded." The incident was reported to 911 around 11:30 a.m. They said a small plane or glider crashed into the ocean off of the East 26th Street beach in Beach Haven. The Coast Guard and police responded to the area and searched for hours with boats, helicopters, jet skis, and ATVs along the beach, but found no sign of a crash. Authorities determined nothing happened and called off the search.

President Joe Biden signed a bill on Thursday, 6/17, designating Juneteenth, June 19th, as a federal holiday. The bill passed the House and Senate earlier this week. It becomes the 12th federal holiday and the first since Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was created in 1983. Juneteenth remembers June 19, 1865, when Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived in Galveston, Texas with the word that the Civil War was over and that slaves were free. President Abraham Lincoln had delivered the Emancipation Proclamation two years earlier ending slavery, but it took the end of the war to bring freedom to all.

"This is a day of profound weight and profound power, a day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take," Biden said.

Today @POTUS will sign the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, establishing June 19th as a federal holiday. As the 19th falls on a Saturday, most federal employees will observe the holiday tomorrow, June 18th.
â€” U.S. Office of Personnel Management (@USOPM) June 17, 2021

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