{"id":168996,"date":"2026-03-20T05:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168996\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:41:24","slug":"38-year-old-charged-after-truck-hits-multiple-overpasses-in-central-new-york-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168996\/","title":{"rendered":"38-Year-Old Charged After Truck Hits Multiple Overpasses in Central New York | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"38-Year-Old Charged After Truck Hits Multiple Overpasses in Central New York\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69bc5c3088bf3.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Provided Photo\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SYRACUSE, N.Y. &#8212;\u00a0A tractor-trailer hauling an overheight excavator struck more than a dozen overpasses along the New York State Thruway in Central New York.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police reported that the crashes happened around 1:45 p.m. on March 18, as the truck traveled westbound between exits 30 and 36.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers stopped the truck at the Mattydale tandem lot in the Town of Salina and identified the driver as Oleksander Tarakanovskyi, 38, of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found the truck hit overpasses across about 60 miles.<\/p>\n<p>NYSP commercial vehicle enforcement, Thruway Traffic Safety, Maintenance and Bridge Inspection teams responded to check the damage.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and there were no lane closures or major traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p>Most overpasses had minor damage, but a few had moderate damage.<\/p>\n<p>All lanes and overpasses remain open while bridge inspections continue.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers charged Tarakanovskyi with reckless endangerment and gave him more than 20 traffic tickets, including for federal commercial vehicle safety violations.<\/p>\n<p>He was processed at SP Syracuse and released with an appearance ticket for Salina Court on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A tractor-trailer hauling an overheight excavator struck more than a dozen overpasses along the New York State Thruway in Central New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided Photo\u00a0 SYRACUSE, N.Y. &#8212;\u00a0A tractor-trailer hauling an overheight excavator struck more than a dozen overpasses along the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1880,69272,69273,69274,20157,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,3905,5384],"class_list":["post-168996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-new-york","tag-exit-30","tag-exit-31","tag-exit-32","tag-mohawk-valley","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-new-york-state-police","tag-nysp","tag-syracuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168996","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=168996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}