accidents
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013 - 9:22 am
An Elmont man stabbed himself to death while driving on the New York State Thruway in the Ulster County town of Plattekill on Tuesday, according to a statement by New York State Police.
Around 7:25pm on Tuesday, police say, two witnesses saw a 2002... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 10, 2013 - 9:38 am
A two-car accident in the town of Liberty on Friday claimed the life of a 46-year-old Rock Hill woman.
According to a New York State Police press release, Kim Gessner was driving west on Ferndale-Loomis Road in a 2008 Nissan Versa around 9am on Friday. As... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 3, 2013 - 9:46 am
A 55-year-old Port Ewen man who decided to take his Jeep off-roading in the town of Ulster on Sunday slid off the trail, and had to be rescued by state police and local fire companies.
According to a statement from state troopers, the man, who police did... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 31, 2013 - 10:22 am
Thanks to luck and training, a young Greenville pilot walked away from a plane crash in Wawarsing with only minor injuries on Thursday afternoon.
According to a New York State Police news release, 23-year-old Kimberly Striefler, the plane's sole occupant... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 - 1:01 pm
Ulster County sheriff Paul Van Blarcum is recovering in Kingston Hospital after a bizarre accident on Monday afternoon, in which a car veered off the road, crashed into Van Blarcum's parked truck, and shoved the truck onto the sheriff.
The accident... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 20, 2013 - 2:39 pm
A head-on collision between an ambulance and a pickup truck on Route 32 left a paramedic seriously injured early Saturday morning .
The Mobile Life ambulance was traveling northbound on Route 32, driven by 43-year-old William Spadafora of Hurley, around 6... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 15, 2013 - 11:24 am
Longtime Prattsville resident Donald Olson -- a Prattsville town justice, former clerk of the Greene County Legislature, and deeply involved member of the close-knit Prattsville community -- was killed in a head-on collision on Route 23 in Windham on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, May. 5, 2013 - 10:24 pm
A hiker was seriously injured in a fall on the Tanbark Trail in Phoenicia on Sunday afternoon.
Around 3pm Sunday, Shandaken police and first responders received a call that a hiker had fallen down a cliff roughly 40 feet high, according to Shandaken... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 2, 2013 - 10:03 pm
A spill that shut down a stretch of Route 28 and Ohayo Mountain Road for hours on Tuesday afternoon was messy, but not dangerous, officials say.
The spill occurred sometime before on Tuesday, when a tractor-trailer traveling in West Hurley began leaking... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 2, 2013 - 9:25 pm
Update, Friday, 5/3/2013: The body of the pilot, 72-year-old Copake resident Michael B. Braunstein, was recovered by divers on Friday, about 24 hours after the plane crashed.
A small plane crashed into the Hudson River between Greene and Columbia Counties... Read more
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