{"id":334266,"date":"2026-08-31T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:06:09","slug":"new-york-state-police-respond-to-multiple-car-crashes-on-interstate-81-in-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334266\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police respond to multiple car crashes on Interstate 81 in Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOWN OF BARKER, N.Y. (WBNG) &#8212; New York State Police and Broome County Sheriff\u2019s deputies responded to multiple crashes on Interstate 81 north in the Town of Barker on Sunday, Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident occurred around 12:25 p.m. near mile marker 25, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/troopers.ny.gov\/news\/troopers-and-deputies-respond-multi-vehicle-crash-broome-county\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/troopers.ny.gov\/news\/troopers-and-deputies-respond-multi-vehicle-crash-broome-county\">New York State Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators found that a northbound Cadillac in the right lane attempted to change lanes and struck a northbound Kia in the left lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After the impact, the Cadillac hit a guardrail and spun around, stopping and facing the wrong direction, while the Kia rolled over into the median.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Cadillac\u2019s driver, 23-year-old Joseph Daniel Carhuapoma Rivera of Fort Drum, was ticketed and transported to UHS Wilson Medical Center along with a 46-year-old passenger of Astoria, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the Kia, 22-year-old Yarema Mikhaylo Duplak of Ontario, Canada, was also taken to the same hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the aftermath of the crash, police observed several stopped motorists attempting to drive the wrong way to bypass the traffic backup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NYSP reminds drivers that going against the flow of traffic is extremely dangerous and urges drivers to remain patient and follow emergency instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF BARKER, N.Y. (WBNG) &#8212; New York State Police and Broome County Sheriff\u2019s deputies responded to multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-334266","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\/334266","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=334266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}