{"id":141869,"date":"2026-02-22T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:49:21","slug":"state-police-investigate-fatal-snowmobile-crash-in-fulton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141869\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police investigate fatal snowmobile crash in Fulton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 20, 2026, at about 11:10 p.m., State Police responded to a reported snowmobile accident on a trail about \u00bd mile behind 253 County Road 111 in the town of Caroga Lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary investigation revealed that Stephen J. Banks, 54, of Cream Ridge, New Jersey, was operating a snowmobile when it failed to negotiate a curve in the trail and struck a tree. Members of the Caroga Lake Fire Department performed life saving measures, and St. Johnsville Ambulance transported Banks to Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville where he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the accident is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On February 20, 2026, at about 11:10 p.m., State Police responded to a reported snowmobile accident on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-141869","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\/141869","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=141869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}