{"id":318461,"date":"2026-08-11T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:54:13","slug":"over-height-mack-truck-strikes-i-87-bridge-overturns-before-slamming-into-toyota-nysp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318461\/","title":{"rendered":"Over-Height Mack Truck Strikes I-87 Bridge, Overturns Before Slamming Into Toyota: NYSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    The driver of the Toyota was taken\u00a0to Nyack Hospital; the truck driver was not injured, according to NYSP.<\/p>\n<p>Aug 10, 2026 6:59 PM EDT | Updated Aug 10, 2026 7:25 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>NYACK, NY \u2014 A tractor-trailer crash near the Mario Cuomo Bridge brought traffic to a standstill and sent one person to the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>At approximately 12:20 p.m. on Monday, state police assigned to Troop T, SP Tarrytown responded to the rollover crash on the New York State Thruway (I-87) southbound, in the village of South Nyack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/newcity\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said that a 2020 Mack tractor-trailer struck the South Broadway Bridge overpass, then overturned and struck a 2025 Toyota sedan that was parked on the right shoulder off the highway. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Toyota was taken to Nyack Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to NYSP. The driver of the tractor-trailer reported no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the tractor trailer was identified as 50-year-old Pernell Harris, of York, South Carolina. He was ticketed for an over-height vehicle. The vehicle is registered to Eastern Express, Inc. of Indiana. <\/p>\n<p>All lanes of traffic are now open, as of 4 p.m., according to NYSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of the Toyota was taken\u00a0to Nyack Hospital; the truck driver was not injured, according to NYSP.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-318461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318461","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=318461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}