accidents
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 - 6:46 am
Early Sunday morning, a car struck a tree in the Ulster County town of Rochester, injuring three occupants. Its driver, 20-year-old Matthew Kalaschenkow of Accord, faces DWI, vehicular assault, reckless endangerment, and various traffic charges.
From the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 3:42 pm
78-year-old Lynn Gustafson of Oneonta was injured yesterday when her car ran off the road on Route 23 in Harpersfield. From the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
On July 18, 2011 Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to the scene of a one car... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 12:39 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that a man and two women were injured in a head-on crash on Route 9W in Ulster this morning:
The accident happened about 10:45 a.m. in front of the former Miron building, between Leggs Mill and Old Stage roads in the hamlet of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 8:48 am
A report of a child drowning in the Rondout Creek in Napanoch had police, fire, and medical emergency responders scrambling to reach the scene in time -- but turned out to be a false alarm.
The 13-year-old boy who called in the report will be referred to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 9:23 am
Four people from Ulster County died in a boating accident on the Hudson River yesterday, and two more people barely escaped. The accident was horrific enough to make the papers across the state.
News accounts report that six people were riding in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 5, 2011 - 2:50 pm
There was lots of excitement in the tiny hamlet of Bearsville last Friday, according to the Daily Freeman:
An elderly woman was rescued from her car in a stream Friday morning after the vehicle barrelled backward from the Cub Market parking lot, then... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 2:49 pm
A victimless (and potentially seedless) crime happened this morning on Highway 30 in the town of Schoharie, according to a Schoharie County Sheriff's Office press release. A tractor-trailer loaded with watermelons reportedly overturned on the highway. No... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Two men -- 46-year-old Clifford Banks of East Branch, and 19-year-old Dalton Hills of Fishs Eddy -- were killed on Friday evening on River Road in Colchester, when the pickup truck Banks was driving ran off the road and struck an earth embankment. A load... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 3:12 pm
A delivery truck headed east on Route 28 in Phoenicia yesterday afternoon caused a collision with a pickup truck driven by a local teenager, totaling the pickup and injuring its occupants. A press release from the Shandaken Police Department:
The Town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 1:01 pm
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office is reporting that a 53-year-old woman from Meridale reportedly blacked out behind the wheel in Meredith yesterday before driving her pickup truck off the highway and into shrubs, a house, and a ceramic birdbath.
Laura... Read more
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