{"id":31525,"date":"2025-11-07T03:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31525\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T03:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:17:17","slug":"crane-truck-overturns-near-massena-driver-airlifted-to-syracuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31525\/","title":{"rendered":"Crane truck overturns near Massena, driver airlifted to Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOWN OF LOUISVILLE, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A portion of Route 37 in St. Lawrence County is closed to traffic after a crane truck overturned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash happened shortly after noon in the eastbound lane of Route 37 in the town of Louisville near Massena Central School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As of 6 p.m., the eastbound lane was still closed to traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State police said 58-year-old Frank Ledeay of Bloomington, Texas, was driving a Peterbilt crane truck when he exited the roadway for an unknown reason. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers said the truck entered the median, overturned, and came to rest in the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ledeay was freed from the wreckage and taken to Massena Memorial Hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was later airlifted to SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The New York State Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit responded to the scene to inspect the truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Assistance at the scene was provided by the state Department of Transportation, the Louisville and Massena Fire and Rescue, the Massena Police Department, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The photos above are courtesy of New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF LOUISVILLE, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A portion of Route 37 in St. Lawrence County is closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,19124,19123,8938,8940],"class_list":{"0":"post-31525","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","14":"tag-overturned","15":"tag-route-37","16":"tag-state-police","17":"tag-tractor-trailer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31525","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=31525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}