{"id":329102,"date":"2026-08-25T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329102\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:36:48","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-smithtown-teen-killed-in-double-fatal-collision-in-ulster-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329102\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Smithtown Teen Killed In Double Fatal Collision In Ulster County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 19-year-old man from Suffolk County was killed in a head-on crash in Ulster County, New York, early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Troopers from the State Police Kingston barracks responded to a two-car motor vehicle collision on Route 28 around 6:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Following an investigation, police say Peter Bonenfant, 19, of Smithtown, was driving a 2024 Chevrolet westbound on State Route 28 when he crossed into the eastbound lane and hit a 2021 Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bonenfant was extricated from the vehicle and taken to Health Alliance Hospital in Kingston, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The operator of the Mercedes, Philip Jacobus, 72, of New York, NY, was also transported to Health Alliance Hospital, but later transferred to Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital where he ultimately died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Smithtown High School West boys\u2019 lacrosse team remembered Bonenfant in an Instagram post, saying \u201cRest easy brother\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-peter-bonefants-memorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An online fundraiser<\/a> was created to help support the 19-year-old&#8217;s family during this difficult time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old man from Suffolk County was killed in a head-on crash in Ulster County, New York, early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-329102","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\/329102","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=329102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}