{"id":211844,"date":"2026-04-27T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211844\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:30:07","slug":"pittsfield-man-dead-following-wrong-way-crash-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211844\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsfield man dead following wrong-way crash in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8212; New York State Police say a Pittsfield man was killed, and 6 others were hurt, after a wrong-way crash on the New York thruway Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers responded around 9 p.m. to I-87 northbound in Saugerties, where they say a Toyota was driving South in the Northbound lanes between Exits 19 and 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say that car, driven by 42-year-old Joseph Mensah\u2011Otoo of Pittsfield, hit 3 other cars. Mensah\u2011Otoo was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Six others, including drivers and passengers from New York and from Dalton and Hinsdale, Massachusetts, were taken to a Kingston hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Western Mass News (WGGB\/WSHM). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8212; New York State Police say a Pittsfield man was killed, and 6 others were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2214,83728,83724,83725,83727,83726,610,11539,9,11,10,83722,12,83723,13659,62793,62795,62794],"class_list":["post-211844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crash","tag-dalton","tag-exit-19","tag-exit-20","tag-hinsdale","tag-joseph-mensah-otoo","tag-local","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-yorl","tag-news","tag-pittsfield","tag-toyota","tag-western-mass","tag-western-mass-news","tag-western-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211844","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=211844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}