PITCAIRN, N.Y. \u2014 A Syracuse man was killed in a crash in the North Country, the New York State Police said.<\/p>\n
The state police identified the deceased as Chukwudi O. Okereke, 22. He was the driver of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
On July 30, around 7:53 p.m., troopers responded to State Route 3 in the Town of Pitcairn for a report of a serious crash.<\/p>\n
The state police said a preliminary investigation determined that a white 2022 Isuzu box truck was traveling westbound on State Route 3 when Okereke lost control of the vehicle for an unknown reason.<\/p>\n
Okereke’s vehicle entered the southern shoulder, left the roadway and struck a fence before continuing and coming to a rest after striking a tree.<\/p>\n
Local fire and rescue personnel responded to the scene and provided medical assistance. An off-duty physician who was among the first to arrive at the scene also provided medical care to those involved in the collision.<\/p>\n
Okereke was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in the vehicle, a 20-year-old man from Cicero, N.Y., was taken to Gouverneur Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
The investigation into the crash remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITCAIRN, N.Y. \u2014 A Syracuse man was killed in a crash in the North Country, the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-311142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311142","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=311142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}