{"id":33352,"date":"2025-11-08T22:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33352\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T22:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:13:13","slug":"updated-names-released-in-fatal-westmoreland-thruway-crash-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33352\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Names Released in Fatal Westmoreland Thruway Crash | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fatal Crash on I-90 Friday\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/690e0cbde9846.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Updated Information<\/p>\n<p>11\/7; 3:30 p.m.\u2014New York State Police identified the deceased driver of the Jeep as Quinntin Walker, 35, of Ithaca.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Ford, Mark Jean, 47, of Fulton, is in a medically induced coma.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Malone, 46, of Syracuse, a passenger in the Ford, is conscious but in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Both are being treated at Upstate Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Thruway has opened back up in both directions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police identified the deceased driver of the Jeep as Quinntin Walker, 35, of Ithaca.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>ORIGINAL STORY BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>WESTMORELAND, N.Y. &#8212; New York State Police are investigating a fatal crash that happened on the Thruway in Oneida County around 2:25 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>They said a vehicle was going eastbound in the westbound lane.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers followed the car for about 12 miles, trying to stop the driver, but the Jeep struck a 2018 Ford pickup, head on.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of that Jeep was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and passenger of the Ford were airlifted to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>There is no indication of how long westbound lanes in the area will be closed down.<\/p>\n<p>A diversion is set up at Exit 32 westbound.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police are investigating a fatal crash that happened on the Thruway in Oneida County around 2:25 this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Information 11\/7; 3:30 p.m.\u2014New York State Police identified the deceased driver of the Jeep as Quinntin Walker,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3662,9,11,10,49,51,50,19976,14389],"class_list":{"0":"post-33352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-fatal","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-state-news","15":"tag-thruway","16":"tag-westmoreland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33352","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=33352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}