A semi-truck crash on the New York Thruway leaves one dead, one injured, causing traffic delays. State Police say there’s no evidence of driver impairment.<\/p>\n
ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014 New York State Police say one person is dead after a semi hit a pickup truck on the Thruway Friday morning.<\/p>\n
According to Troopers, a 2018 Volvo tractor-trailer was driving westbound on the 90 in the town of Newstead, when it crashed into a disabled 2012 Chevy pickup truck that was on the shoulder.<\/p>\n
The driver of the pickup, Olive Wesley, 61 of Rochester, died at the scene. A passenger was brought to ECMC with non-life-threatening injuries. However, they are listed in serious condition.<\/p>\n
The driver of the semi was not hurt in the crash. State police say they did perform a field sobriety tests, but the tractor-trailer driver showed no signs of impairment.<\/p>\n
The New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Troop A and Collision Reconstruction Unit responded to the scene. The investigation remains ongoing at this hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A semi-truck crash on the New York Thruway leaves one dead, one injured, causing traffic delays. State Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-338741","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\/338741","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=338741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}