{"id":141304,"date":"2026-02-21T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141304\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:37:08","slug":"new-york-state-police-investigating-fatal-fulton-co-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141304\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police investigating fatal Fulton Co. crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAROGA LAKE, N.Y. (WNYT) \u2013 Police are investigating a fatal snowmobile crash that happened on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/top-stories\/driver-hurt-after-hitting-tree-overturning-vehicle-into-swamp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Driver hurt after hitting tree, overturning vehicle into swamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to New York State Police, it happened around 11:10 p.m. at 253 County Road 111 in Caroga Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Stephen J. Banks, 54, was riding the snowmobile when he lost control around a turn and hit a tree. Members of the Caroga Lake Fire Department performed life-saving measures on Banks before he was taken to Nathan Littauer Hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/snowmobile\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snowmobile<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/fulton-county\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulton County<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/fatal\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fatal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/crash\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crash<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/caroga-lake\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caroga Lake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAROGA LAKE, N.Y. (WNYT) \u2013 Police are investigating a fatal snowmobile crash that happened on Friday night. Related:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59582,2214,3662,26387,9,11,10,49,51,50,32612],"class_list":["post-141304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-caroga-lake","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-fulton-county","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-snowmobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141304","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=141304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}