{"id":312733,"date":"2026-08-03T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312733\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:54:10","slug":"driver-dies-after-box-truck-crash-in-pitcairn-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312733\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after box truck crash in Pitcairn, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driver dies after box truck crash in Pitcairn, New York<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb\" aria-label=\"Michael Cusanelli profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb_1780510546.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Michael Cusanelli\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>PITCAIRN, N.Y. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A New York man died on Friday after the truck he was driving crashed into a tree.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">New York State Police said Chukwudi Okereke, 22, of Syracuse, was driving a box truck west on State Route 3 in Pitcairn on Thursday evening when the vehicle left the road and crashed through a fence. The truck then hit a tree near the roadway.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The crash happened just before 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Okereke was severely injured and died at the scene. Police said a passenger in the truck, a 20-year-old man from Cicero, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">An investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driver dies after box truck crash in Pitcairn, New York PITCAIRN, N.Y. \u2014 A New York man died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57527,118259,4155,1840,8939,53000,118260,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,118261,56143,2311,10500],"class_list":["post-312733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-box-truck","tag-chukwudi-o-okereke","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-fatal-crash","tag-gouverneur-hospital","tag-joseph-w-rice","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-pitcairn","tag-route-3","tag-st-lawrence-county","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312733","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=312733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}