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Wheelchair rider hurt in NICE 'maiden run'
Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Reporter Barbara Ann Yanger attempts to board the new "NICE" bus in Garden City, but falls backward in her wheelchair. (Jan. 1, 2012)
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The New Year's Day "maiden run" of a Nassau County NICE bus was hastily scrapped after a journalist in a wheelchair fell and hit her head on the pavement while boarding the bus at a news conference in Garden City.
The journalist, Barbara Yanger, was taken by ambulance to Nassau County Medical Center, Nassau police said. Her condition was stable Sunday night, the hospital said.
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