On September 27, 2026, at approximately 3:57 p.m., State Police responded to County Route 46 in the town of Le Ray for a two-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation determined that a 2002 Honda CR-V, operated by Nathan H. Fifield, age 32, of Gouverneur, was traveling south on County Route 46 when it attempted to pass an uninvolved vehicle and collided head on with a 2023 Buick Encore traveling north operated by a Gary A. Neilsen, age 65, of Theresa.<\/p>\n
The Honda was occupied by a passenger, Cassandra M. Thomas, age 31, of Deferiet.<\/p>\n
All three occupants were transported to Samaritan Medical Center.<\/p>\n
Cassandra M. Thomas, was later pronounced deceased at the hospital.<\/p>\n
Both drivers have serious, non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
The New York State Police Collision Reconstruction Unit responded and is assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On September 27, 2026, at approximately 3:57 p.m., State Police responded to County Route 46 in the town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-359195","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\/359195","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=359195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}