On August 14, 2026, at approximately 2:52 p.m., New York State Police from SP Norwich responded to a crash involving a pickup truck and a pedestrian on State Route 206 in the town of Greene.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation determined that a 2023 Ford Ranger was traveling westbound on State Route 206 through a posted active work zone. The operator, Kenneth J. Alberts, age 59, of McGraw, failed to maintain his lane of travel and struck a survey worker who was conducting testing outside of his vehicle on a closed portion of the roadway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The survey worker is identified as Jeffrey Michael Hall, 34, of Monticello.\u00a0 Upon impact, Hall was knocked into an open door of his vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hall sustained serious injuries and was transported by helicopter to SUNY Upstate Medical University.\u00a0He is listed in critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The New York State Police Collision Reconstruction Unit responded to the scene to assist with the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alberts immediately called 911 following the crash and has been cooperative with New York State Police.\u00a0\u00a0 He was issued traffic citations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York State Police remind motorists to use extra caution when traveling through active work zones.\u00a0 Drivers should slow down, follow posted speed limit signs, and remain alert for workers and equipment.\u00a0 Be prepared for changes or sudden stops.\u00a0 If there is lane where you can move over safely, please move over and help protect workers performing roadway improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 14, 2026, at approximately 2:52 p.m., New York State Police from SP Norwich responded to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-322434","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\/322434","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=322434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}