{"id":353726,"date":"2026-09-22T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353726\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:40:09","slug":"updatestate-police-investigate-fatal-crash-in-town-of-hounsfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353726\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE:State Police investigate fatal crash in town of Hounsfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 18, 2026, at approximately 4:49 p.m., State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of State Route 3 and County Route 66 in the town of Hounsfield.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation determined that a 2016 Honda Fit, operated by Mary Lou Alexander, age 83, from New Hartford, was traveling north on County Route 66 and attempting to cross State Route 3 onto State Route 180. The Honda Fit failed to yield at a stop sign and entered the path of a 2024 Honda CR-V, operated by Paula Edwards, age 55, from Sackets Harbor, who was traveling east on State Route 3, resulting in a collision.<\/p>\n<p>Both operators were transported to Samaritan Medical Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou Alexander was subsequently pronounced deceased at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Paula Edwards sustained serious, non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On September 18, 2026, at approximately 4:49 p.m., State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-353726","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\/353726","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=353726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}