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Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
26-Year-Old Killed After Mercedes-Benz Crashes Into Tractor-Trailer In Area
One person was killed when a Mercedes-Benz crashed into a tractor-trailer overnight in the area. The incident happened on Friday, Jan. 1 at approximately 2:30 a.m. in Rockland County on the southbound side of I-87 in Chestnut Ridge. A preliminary investigation determined that Dante M. Damanti, age 41, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, located a disabled vehicle in the right southbound lane at mile marker 24.4, according to state police Damanti parked his 2018 Freightliner tractor-trailer in the right lane, behind the disabled vehicle, and set up orange hazard triangles while awaiting a tow t…
North Hunterdon, NJ
Police & Fire
Father Of NJ Police Officer Who Died In 2011 Motorcycle Crash Killed The Same Way, 63
A 63-year-old motorcyclist from Burlington County was killed in a Route 31 collision with a school bus over the weekend -- just more than nine years after his son died in a motorcycle crash. Alex Harvilla, of Chesterfield, was heading southbound on a Honda motorcycle when he struck an eastbound Freightliner school bus near milepost 15 around 3:20 p.m. Sunday, NJSP Trooper Alejandro Goez said. Harvilla was pronounced dead at the scene. None of the 14 passengers on the school bus nor the 64-year-old driver from Somerville were injured, Goez said. Harvilla's son, Joh…
Paramus, NJ
Police & Fire
Photos
: Lodi Woman, Boy Extricated In Route 17 Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer, Sedans, Pickup
UPDATE: A woman and teenage boy from Lodi had to be cut from their sedan after it was smashed in a multi-vehicle pileup involving a tractor-trailer Thursday afternoon on Route 17, authorities said. Members of the Paramus Volunteer Rescue Squad extricated the 27-year-old woman and 14-year-old boy after the crash closed the northbound highway around 1:45 p.m. Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, Paramus Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. It began when a Hyundai Sonata rear-ended the victims’ Nissan Sentra in t…
Brentwood, NY
Police & Fire
Man Killed After Being Struck By Box Truck On Busy Long Island Street
A person was killed after being struck by a truck on a busy Long Island roadway. The incident happened around 9 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 5 in Hempstead. A 45-year-old man was operating a Freightliner box truck traveling northbound in the right lane, when the truck struck a man walking west on the roadway in front of 38 North Franklin St., Nassau County Police said. The victim suffered multiple trauma injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. The operator of the truck was not injured. The victim’s identity has not yet been released. The investigation into the c…
Stony Point, NY
Police & Fire
Man Struck By Tractor-Trailer In Fatal Rockland Crash
This story has been updated. A man was killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer, state police said. The crash happened Saturday, June 6 in Rockland County at about 11:20 p.m. on I-87 in the village of Sloatsburg. An investigation at the scene revealed that Robert H. Harrington, 45, of Waltham, Massachusetts, was operating his 2019 Jeep southbound in the area of mile marker 33.1, when he struck a guardrail, according to police. Harrington was subsequently struck by the 2019 Freightliner tractor-trailer operated by Robin Carroll, 63, of Albany, police said. State Police corrected an …
Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
Updated With Photos: One Killed, Two Injured In Crash
A man was killed and two others were hospitalized after a Ford F150 rear-ended a tractor-trailer, state police said. It happened on Friday, June 5 in Rockland County at about 9:30 p.m., on the Garden State Parkway southbound, at mile marker 1.6 in Chestnut Ridge. The investigation at the scene revealed that Westchester County resident Edgar E. Cevellos Vega, 48, of Harrison, was operating a 2004 Ford F150 southbound, in the right lane, when he rear-ended a 2016 Freightliner tractor-trailer, state police said. The operator of the tractor-trailer, William M. Crawford, 54, of Phenix City, Ala…
Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
Westchester Man Among Two Injured In Fatal Rockland Crash
A man was killed and two others were hospitalized after a Ford F150 rear-ended a tractor-trailer, state police said. It happened on Friday, June 5 in Rockland County at about 9:30 p.m., on the Garden State Parkway southbound, at mile marker 1.6 in Chestnut Ridge. The investigation at the scene revealed that Westchester County resident Edgar E. Cevellos Vega, 48, of Harrison, was operating a 2004 Ford F150 southbound, in the right lane, when he rear-ended a 2016 Freightliner tractor-trailer, state police said. The operator of the tractor-trailer, William M. Crawford, 54, of Phenix City, Ala…
Brentwood, NY
Police & Fire
Trucker Charged With Vehicular Homicide, Assault In NJ Crash That Killed Suffolk Man
A chain-reaction crash on the NJ Turnpike that claimed the life of a Long Island man was caused by a Seattle truck driver, said New Jersey State Police, who charged him with vehicular homicide. Stefan (Stephen) Shipinkoski, 22, remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail on death-by-auto and assault-by-auto charges following his arrest Wednesday. Shipinkoski was driving a Freightliner box truck in Ridgefield, New Jersey that rear-ended a Nissan Altima, igniting the chain-reaction crash on the Turnpike’s southbound western spur just after 2 p.m. Saturday, NJ State Police Trooper Alejand…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Police & Fire
Trucker Charged With Vehicular Homicide, Assault In Fatal NJ Turnpike Crash
A chain-reaction crash on the NJ Turnpike in Ridgefield that claimed the life of a Long Island man was caused by a Seattle truck driver, said State Police who charged him vehicular homicide. Stefan (Stephen) Shipinkoski, 22, remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail on death-by-auto and assault-by-auto charges following his arrest Wednesday. Shipinkoski was driving a Freightliner box truck that rear-ended a Nissan Altima, igniting the chain-reaction crash on the Turnpike’s southbound western spur just after 2 p.m. Saturday, NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. Luis Choez-Pad…
Peekskill, NY
Police & Fire
Woman ID'd As Victim Of Fatal Route 9 Crash
A 32-year-old local woman has been identified as the victim in a fatal two-vehicle crash on Route 9. New York State Police said Mindy R. Dohrenwend of Hyde Park was killed around 11:45 a.m., Sunday, March 10, on Route 9 (Albany Post Road) in the town of Hyde Park. Dohrenwend was driving a 2005 Honda CRV northbound on Albany Post Road when she apparently lost control of her vehicle. After losing control her vehicle entered the opposite lane of travel, directly in the path of a southbound 2017 Freightliner tractor-trailer driven by Alexander M. Lunan Marrison, 49, of Brooklyn, said Troop…
