ELIZABETHTOWN — A wintry blend of snow and rain turned treacherous Tuesday, as about six inches of snow condensed into an ice-coated slush.

Essex County first-responders attended to numerous accidents through the morning commute and long into the day.

“They’ve been all over the place, from one end of the county to the other,” said Emergency Services Deputy Director Donald Jacquish.

SCHOOL BUS CRASH

About 10:26 a.m., a school bus carrying students from Ticonderoga Central School collided with a truck about halfway down Lincoln Pond hill, a winding, steep road connecting the towns of Moriah and Elizabethtown.

Jacquish said the small school bus was going south toward Ticonderoga and began to climb the hill just past Lincoln Pond.

“As they went up a real steep hill, they got stuck; the wheels were spinning. The bus ended up angled on the roadway. A pickup truck coming down the hill was unable to stop and hit the bus.”

The bus had eight passengers, Jacquish said, including teenagers and some younger students.

Both vehicles sustained severe front-end damage.

“They aren’t going to be driving them home,” Jacquish said shortly after leaving the accident site.

Ticonderoga Central School Transportation Coordinator Michael Vigliotti said the bus was taking Yandon-Dillon Educational Center students from a class in Elizabethtown back to the Mineville school.

“Our information is that no one was hurt. It was a fender-bender on Lincoln Pond Hill,” Vigliotti said.

Yandon-Dillon sent a second bus to pick up the students, who were headed back to school by 11:20 a.m.

Elizabethtown-Lewis Ambulance Squad called both rigs into service, with Mineville/Witherbee on alert and Westport Ambulance standing by.