Accidents that occured in New York or impacted New York residents.
A fatal crash occurred on Troy-Schenectady Road in Niskayuna on Saturday afternoon, leaving one driver dead and the occupants of the second vehicle transported to the hospital. Police are investigating the incident.
Wallace Fauquet III, a fuel truck driver, died in a fiery crash on a Connecticut bridge. Several others were injured but none life-threatening. The truck spilled about 2,200 gallons of home heating oil, some of it flowing into the Thames River.
A New York woman died after crashing into two utility poles in Newtown Thursday night. Jessica Bulfaro, 27, was driving eastbound on Berkshire Road when her car veered off the highway and struck two utility poles. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A car collided with a tractor-trailer on the Cross Bronx Expressway, killing the passenger and injuring the 19-year-old driver. Excessive speed is being examined as a possible factor in the crash.
Two people were seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident on the Bronx River Parkway in Westchester. Police are searching for two suspects who fled the scene on foot. The incident occurred around 7 a.m. and involved an Acura MDX, a car, and a pickup truck.
A fatal crash shut down part of the Palisades Parkway Friday morning, leaving one person dead and multiple others injured. The victim has been identified as Cyrus Silverio, 20, of Hackensack, New Jersey. The parkway’s southbound lanes got moving again at Exit 10 in New City Friday about eight hours after the crash happened at an overpass.
A minivan crashed into an auto parts shop in the Bronx, injuring five people. The FDNY responded to the scene and found that one person had suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Two drivers were killed in a wrong-way crash on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. The crash happened at around 1 a.m. on Tuesday when a driver was going the wrong way for a distance of two exits. The alleged wrong-way driver and the 79-year-old man he drove into were both pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital.