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‘These Gentlemen Saved My Life’: Eight New Canaan Firefighters Honored for Oct. 30 Heroics

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Michael Bivona, Jr. had been on his way to visit an uncle in Wilton on Oct. 30, when at about 5:35 p.m. he was struck head-on on Silvermine Road. The 18-year-old remembers nothing of the horrific four-car crash, knowing only that he would have died had it not been for a difficult, careful extrication led by eight New Canaan firefighters. Until Tuesday night, he’d never met them. “It’s a miracle that I am here and I can’t thank them enough,” Bivona, Jr. said during a moving ceremony at Lapham Community Center attended by about 100 people, where the firefighters received a unit citation for their life-saving actions.

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Father of Teen in Silvermine Road Crash: ‘He Remembers Nothing’; Full Accident Report To Come, Lawsuit Likely

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A New Canaan woman involved in the Oct. 30 four-car crash on Silvermine Road that saw a Stamford teen hospitalized with severe injuries (see below) may have caused the collision by rear-ending the vehicle in front of her, according to one motorist’s testimony cited in a preliminary police report. The 50-year-old woman, traveling westbound in a 2010 Chevrolet, sped from behind into a 2013 BMW that had been traveling at 30 mph, according to the BMW driver, the report said. That rear-ending sent the BMW into a head-on crash with the Stamford teen, according to the report, cited by an attorney for the victim’s family. “There are still a lot of questions to be answered,” said the attorney, John Parese of New Haven-based Buckley & Wynne. “Was someone intoxicated?