{"id":328753,"date":"2026-08-24T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328753\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:00:48","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-19-year-old-from-smithtown-dead-second-man-killed-in-head-on-collision-in-ulster-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328753\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 19 Year Old From Smithtown Dead Second Man Killed In Head On Collision In Ulster County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 19-year-old Smithtown man and a 72-year-old from New York City are dead after a head-on crash in Ulster County, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Troopers said they responded Sunday to a two-car crash on Route 28 in the town of Olive.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say Peter Bonenfant was driving a Chevrolet westbound when, for unknown reasons, he crossed into the eastbound lane and collided head-on with a Mercedes-Benz driven by Philip F. Jacobus.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bonenfant was extricated from his vehicle and transported for medical treatment, but succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jacobus was taken to a hospital in Kingston before being transferred to another medical facility, where he also later died from his injuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old Smithtown man and a 72-year-old from New York City are dead after a head-on crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-328753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328753","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=328753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}