accidents
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 3:19 pm
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Ulster County police arrested an allegedly-drunk driver in Esopus on a truly staggering litany of vehicular charges, after his '97 Ford entered the wrong lane on 9W and collided head-on with another car. From a press... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 12:54 pm
Last Friday, a major leak in the Texas Eastern Transmission pipeline -- a propane pipeline that's eight inches in diameter and part of a network spanning some 9,200 miles along the Eastern seaboard -- forced the evacuation of over 100 people in Schoharie... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 10:26 am
Another ATV mishap, although so far, this one isn't fatal: 19-year-old Matthew Sanok was riding in the town of Thompson on Saturday when he hit a pile of rocks and was thrown from the vehicle, reports the Times Herald-Record.
Earlier: Catskill 15-year-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 8:45 pm
A tractor-trailer killed 83-year-old Vera Un and 86-year-old George Un of Shandaken as they stopped on Rte. 28 to make a left turn in Boiceville this afternoon.
According to a press release issued by the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, 59-year-old William... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 8:15 pm
47-year-old William Pitney of New Jersey was killed today in a tractor accident, the Daily Freeman reports:
Deputies said they were called to the property on Sunside Road in Durham about 12:40 p.m. and, upon arriving, found William Jackson Pitney, 47,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 5:53 pm
The Times Herald-Record reports how Michael O'Dell, a 22-year-old, got in the way of a shotgun blast fired by Jeremy Rakin, his 27-year-old friend, last night in Roscoe. (O'Dell, miraculously, is in critical but stable condition, the paper reports):
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 5:35 pm
For the second time in a month, there's been a fatal car accident on Rte. 28 near De Silva Rd. in Boiceville, in the town of Olive.
This afternoon, according to the Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record, one person was killed on that stretch of road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 7:38 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that a 19-year-old hiker, whose name has not yet been released, was killed today in a fall:
Police said the teenager was hiking with fellow students from Bard when he left the group to hike to the top of the falls. He apparently... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 10:55 am
The Times-Herald Record has the tragic story of Betzalel Levin, a camp counselor from Brooklyn who drowned in White Lake yesterday within feet of a life preserver and a boatload of campers. It's unclear why Levin, who dove off a rented boat in order to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 1:45 pm
Christopher G. Barcey, 37, died on Sunday while driving an ATV "erratically and at a high rate of speed" in the town of Cairo in Greene County, according to the Daily Freeman. The cops are quoted as saying that drugs and alcohol were possibly involved:
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