{"id":123675,"date":"2026-02-05T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123675\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:05:09","slug":"man-arrested-for-130-mph-crash-that-killed-upstate-ny-woman-on-thruway-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123675\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for 130 mph crash that killed Upstate NY woman on Thruway: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Virginia man has been arrested for allegedly causing a high-speed crash that killed an Upstate New York woman.<\/p>\n

William F. McAllister III, 38, of Ringgold, Va., was charged Tuesday with criminally negligent homicide, a felony, according to New York State Police. He surrendered himself to NYS Police in Latham, where he was arrested and processed.<\/p>\n

McAllister is accused of driving at more than 130 miles per hour (mph) on Nov. 1, 2025, on the New York State Thruway, causing a three-car collision. The crash occurred around 4:44 p.m. on I-87 northbound near Exit 23 in the town of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

Troopers said a 2011 Chevrolet sedan driven by McAllister was speeding in the left lane when the car attempted to move into the right lane, sideswiping a 2009 Ram pickup truck. McAllister\u2019s vehicle then veered back into the left lane, where it rear-ended a 2025 Chevrolet sedan, which then struck the guardrail.<\/p>\n

The driver of the 2025 Chevy was pronounced dead at the scene. She was later identified as Claudia Hargis-Grover, 63, of Glens Falls, N,Y.<\/p>\n

A passenger in Hargis-Grover\u2019s vehicle was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver and a passenger in the Ram pickup truck were also transported to a hospital in Albany.<\/p>\n

Police said<\/a> at the time that McAllister, whose vehicle came to a stop on the right shoulder of the highway, showed no signs of impairment when given a field sobriety test. A preliminary breath test was negative for the presence of alcohol.<\/p>\n

McAllister was initially charged with multiple vehicle and traffic law violations before Tuesday\u2019s arrest for criminally negligent homicide.<\/p>\n

He was arraigned at the Bethlehem Town Court, where he was released under the supervision of the Albany County Probation Department.<\/p>\n

Bethlehem is located just outside of Albany, more than 500 miles north of Ringgold, Virginia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Virginia man has been arrested for allegedly causing a high-speed crash that killed an Upstate New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13355,23992,2698,2700,303,13356,9664,2706,23144,35839,660,13364,27909,35840,35841,9,11,10,49,51,50,1641,10168,2714,2715,3419,104,17992,18904,10172,35842,13368,282,2023,608,13371,5661],"class_list":["post-123675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-authority","tag-black","tag-blue","tag-car","tag-crime","tag-dark","tag-emergency-services","tag-equipment","tag-focus","tag-group-of-objects","tag-horizontal","tag-illuminated","tag-land-vehicle","tag-law-enforcement-and-crime","tag-lighting-equipment","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-night","tag-no-people","tag-officer","tag-order","tag-photography","tag-police","tag-police-car","tag-police-lights","tag-red","tag-shadow","tag-spotlight","tag-technology","tag-traffic","tag-transportation","tag-urgency","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}