{"id":132630,"date":"2026-02-13T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132630\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:57:07","slug":"new-york-state-police-investigating-fatal-car-crash-in-batavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132630\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police investigating fatal car crash in Batavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troopers say the 79-year-old man died while being treated at ECMC.<\/p>\n<p>BATAVIA, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police are investigating a car crash in the Town of Batavia that left one man dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for the New York State Police, on February 12, shortly before 3pm, troopers responded to West Main Street and Kelsey Road for a vehicle crash. During the initial investigation, troopers determined a 1983 Mercury Marquis was headed eastbound on West Main Street before it crossed the center line and struck a 2013 Toyota 4-Runner.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Marquis, Thomas J. Luby, 79, was transported to Erie County Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Troopers say Luby died at the hospital while being treated.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the 4-Runner reportedly had no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Bureau of Criminal Investigation is assisting with the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers say the 79-year-old man died while being treated at ECMC. BATAVIA, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-132630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132630","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=132630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}