{"id":364608,"date":"2026-10-05T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364608\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:10:19","slug":"hayride-tractor-crashes-injuring-14-including-3-critically-at-upstate-ny-youth-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364608\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayride tractor crashes, injuring 14 \u2014 including 3 critically \u2014 at upstate NY youth outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An out-of-control tractor pulling a hayride flipped and crashed at a weekly youth outing in upstate New York Sunday, leaving three people in critical condition and over a dozen others injured, according to cops and local reports. <\/p>\n<p>The hayride was carrying 19 people \u2014 mostly children \u2014 when it rolled while attempting to make a turn around 4:30 p.m. in Wellsburg, a small village just across the Pennsylvania border, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weny.com\/news\/multiple-people-hurt-in-hay-wagon-crash-in-wellsburg\/article_2cf7a100-8d38-4459-9f46-175232fab0d3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WENY reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The John Deere driver was pulling the hay wagon down Comfort Hill Road toward Berwick Turnpike when the tractor tried to turn at an intersection too fast, Chemung County Sheriff Bill Schrom said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41138011\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/trailer-1_9d523b.jpg\" alt=\"A green and yellow tractor flipped upside down in the front yard of a white house, surrounded by police caution tape.\" class=\"wp-image-41138011\"\/>The crash happened in Wellsburg, New York, a small village just across the Pennsylvania border, during a German Baptist youth outing. News 8 WROC Rochester\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The tractor appeared to lose control as it sped toward the intersection and the driver swerved to the right, causing it to overturn and the wagon to disconnect \u2014 and eject everyone on board, Schrom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/04\/nyregion\/tractor-hayride-crash-wellsburg-upstate-new-york.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least 14 people were injured, Schrom said. One individual was airlifted to a hospital and at least five others were transported to Robert Packer Hospital by ambulance. Another eight were taken to the hospital by private means.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the wounded are in critical condition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochesterfirst.com\/news\/national-news\/at-least-14-injured-after-tractor-pulling-hayride-rolls-ny-sheriff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">RochesterFirst reported.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how many of the injured are children, but witnesses said most of the riders were kids. <\/p>\n<p>The group taking the hayride were German Baptists, a religious Anabaptist sect that was holding a youth gathering the day of the crash, RochesterFirst reported.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said that an investigation is ongoing to determine what led up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An out-of-control tractor pulling a hayride flipped and crashed at a weekly youth outing in upstate New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8136,4325,135213,318,57,9,11,10,817,58],"class_list":["post-364608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-autumn","tag-crashes","tag-fall-season","tag-freak-accidents","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364608","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=364608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}