{"id":135051,"date":"2026-02-16T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135051\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:35:08","slug":"upstate-ny-man-arrested-after-hitting-woman-in-wheelchair-with-suv-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135051\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstate NY man arrested after hitting woman in wheelchair with SUV: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TLZS5XDCQ5FHXM2WTLITTWI6BA\">An Upstate New York man has been arrested after allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/state\/2026\/02\/suv-hits-women-in-wheelchair-in-upstate-ny-police-seek-driver-who-fled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/state\/2026\/02\/suv-hits-women-in-wheelchair-in-upstate-ny-police-seek-driver-who-fled.html\">hitting a woman in a wheelchair with an SUV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YHGT3R2Y75A4XC5BCVK7Z5ONY4\">Terry R. VanValkenburg, 54, of West Chazy, N.Y., was charged Sunday with a felony Vehicle and Traffic Law violation in connection with a hit-and-run collision, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"C6UMZEKZVBFGJHUQAWGSP4CHCQ\">Investigators said VanValkenburg was driving a green 2008 Jeep when it struck a female victim operating a motorized wheelchair in Plattsburgh on Thursday. VanValkenburg was traveling northbound on Ampersand Drive around 5:42 p.m. when he failed to observe the woman traveling southbound, hitting her and causing serious injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YBCD46HNQVE6LKCU634KX3OGNY\">VanValkenburg failed to stop after the collision and fled the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QTHOHEHCMZAOPBAAZWNDAOTWD4\">The victim was transported to Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital before being transferred to University of Vermont Medical Center. She was listed in stable condition at the UVM Center on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SYVIWEEKNNHCLLMAUAMLUDLNYE\">Her name, age, and other details were not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Q6CMWA25MBFMJCL3NV6DGVBOJA\">VanValkenburg was located and transported to te NYS Police station in Plattsburgh for processing. He was later arraigned in Town of Schuyler Falls Court and remanded to the Clinton County Jail without bail.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hit-and-run SUV\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VLCH7OIPDVD5RAYBK7LTLDVPT4.jpg\"  \/>This image released by New York State Police shows an SUV that allegedly hit a woman in a wheelchair in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Feb. 12, 2026.NYS Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T2VXFTAIDFEKTD6DG2XN7LJUH4\">State Police released photos of the vehicle in question Friday. The make, model, license plate number and driver\u2019s identity were not clear, but police said the vehicle was believed to have sustained front-end damage, specifically to the front passenger-side bumper, consistent with striking the victim\u2019s motorized wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MKXT2EAVJNACFLHKF2LNNP3DEA\">Plattsburgh and West Chazy are both located in Clinton County, about 160 miles north of Albany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Upstate New York man has been arrested after allegedly hitting a woman in a wheelchair with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-135051","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\/135051","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=135051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}