Goshen, NY +Fatal MVA+

1:00PM: Overturned Vehicle With R''L Two Fatalities

October 2, 2007 *--

Kiryas Yoel Hatzolah Paramedics are on the scene of a serious accident involving an overturned van on Route 17 (Eastbound) at exit 125. Numerous people are reported to be heavily trapped in the vehicle with R''L two confirmed fatalities (possibly a husband & a wife). Route 17 has been shut down for a Medevac landing. Chesed Shel Emmes are on the scene; Misaskim units are responding. Further details will be posted as they become available to us.

Double fatality in crossover crash on Route 17

October 02, 2007

Goshen 2:05 p.m. — Two people were killed in a crossover crash on Route 17 westbound this afternoon. A state trooper on the scene confirmed that a car traveling eastbound crossed the median and struck a vehicle that was headed westbound.
Route 17 has been the scene of numerous such cross-over crashes, prompting the state Department of Transportation to install metal barriers in the grassy median. This one section had not yet had the barriers installed though the work was only about 100 to 200 feet away from the crash scene.
Traffic westbound is at a standstill and is backed up as far as Exit 126.

Goshen 2:44 p.m. — Two people were killed in a crossover crash on Route 17 westbound this afternoon. A gray Lumina traveling eastbound apparently veered across into oncoming traffic in the westbound lanes and was T-boned by a Camry. The Lumina contained three passengers, two of whom are dead. There was no immediate word on the third passenger in the Lumina. Two people were in the Camry. They were reported to have been taken to the Arden HIll campus of Orange Regional Medical Center in Goshen.
The crash has traffic westbound outside of Exit 125 at a standstill. Cars are backed up as far as at least Exit 126, with spillover traffic at a crawl in the parallel Route 17M. Motorists are advised to avoid the area. Traffic eastbound on Route 17 is moving but slowly.
Route 17 has been the scene of numerous such cross-over crashes, prompting the state Department of Transportation to install metal barriers in the grassy median. This one section had not yet had the barriers installed though the work was only about half a mile away from the crash scene.

Goshen -- 3:09 p.m. — The parents of a 4-month-old infant were killed in a crossover crash on Route 17 westbound this afternoon, police said.

The man and woman were in a gray Lumina traveling eastbound when the driver apparently went off the right shoulder, overcorrected, veered across two lanes and the grassy median and into oncoming traffic in the westbound lanes, police said. The Lumina, T-boned by a Camry, then rolled over.

The infant was taken by ambulance to Hackensack, N.J., hospital. Two people in the Camry, a couple from Middletown, were taken to the Arden HIll campus of Orange Regional Medical Center in Goshen.

The crash has traffic westbound outside of Exit 125 at a standstill. Cars are backed up as far as at least Exit 126, with spillover traffic at a crawl in the parallel Route 17M. Motorists are advised to avoid the area. Traffic eastbound on Route 17 is moving but slowly.

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Quickway accident claims two lives
 
Goshen –Two people two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash on Route 17 eastbound in the Goshen area today.