accidents
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, Jun. 19, 2012 - 2:24 pm
A prominent Manhattan real estate executive and his instructor died in a skydiving accident on Friday afternoon in the Ulster County town of Plattekill.
According to news accounts of the accident, David Winoker, a 49-year-old father of three, and his... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 18, 2012 - 10:38 am
Above: The Grist Mill Real Estate building at 265 Main Street in Saugerties, where a man fell to his death early Sunday morning. Image via Google Street Map.
On Sunday morning at 6:08am, 27-year-old Saugerties resident Donald E. Briggs was found... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 13, 2012 - 4:23 pm
A collision between an ATV and a dump truck on Route 30 in Gilboa early this afternoon left two teenagers dead, a 16-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl.
YNN reports that the two teenagers drove the ATV out of a field and into the road:
The Schoharie... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 12, 2012 - 3:22 pm
Around 6pm on the evening of Friday, June 8, 23-year-old Machteld Klok was killed when the car she was driving struck a tree on Case Hill Road in Franklin, according to Sergeant Gary Leahy of the New York State Police.
Leahy said that Klok was driving... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 12, 2012 - 9:42 am
Above: First responders on the scene of a three-car collision in Shandaken on Sunday, June 10. Photo by Robert Bolten.
On Sunday afternoon, Jesse Cowan was on duty as the driver of the ambulance for the Shandaken Ambulance Service. When a call came in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 14, 2012 - 5:18 pm
Josh Turan. Photo courtesy of David Turan.
To his friends, 22-year-old Josh Turan was a thrill-seeker: A goofy, fearless kid who liked snowboarding, motocross racing, and parkour, and would rather spend the night outdoors than under a roof.
But when he... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, May. 12, 2012 - 3:47 pm
A 19-year-old Accord man is currently in critical condition after falling off the roof of a friend's car while it was moving.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that the accident happened at 5:49pm on Friday, May 11, on Whitfield Road near the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 11, 2012 - 12:05 am
Today's New York Daily News has an in-depth story about a horrific accident that took an elderly couple's lives in the town of Andes last week.
Arthur and Madeleine Morris, a Manhattan couple who owned a vacation home on Woodland Hill Drive in Andes, died... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 8, 2012 - 1:46 pm
Today's Daily Freeman fills in some of the details on Sunday's horrific ATV accident in Rosendale, in which a dirt bike ridden by 40-year-old Paul Harper collided with a 16-year-old girl on an ATV, leaving her in critical condition.
The girl is Kaylon... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 7, 2012 - 11:29 am
Last week saw a couple of catastrophic ATV accidents in the Catskills.
On Thursday, May 3, two local residents were fatally injured while riding an ATV in Andes: 32-year-old John W. Morris and 45-year-old Julie M. Manon. The Daily Star reports:
Manon died... Read more
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