{"id":366050,"date":"2026-10-06T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366050\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:46:16","slug":"new-york-hayride-crash-10-injured-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366050\/","title":{"rendered":"New York hayride crash: 10 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KateWELLSBURG, N.Y. \u2014<\/p>\n

Nearly a dozen people were injured, including one critically, after a tractor rolled over during a hayride in New York near the Pennsylvania border.<\/p>\n

The incident happened in Wellsburg, New York, on Sunday afternoon, according to the Chemung County Sheriff’s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It started when “the passengers noted that the brakes began to smoke, and the driver seemed to be struggling with some mechanical issues,” the sheriff’s office said in a social media post.<\/p>\n

The tractor continued for about another 1.5 miles before the crash happened. In the seconds leading up to the incident, the 16-year-old driver can be seen in a video passing a stop sign and turning right, causing the hayride to flip.<\/p>\n

“The tractor rolled over multiple times, pinning the driver underneath and dragging him several yards before striking a tree and coming to a stop,” the sheriff’s office said. “The driver was not pinned under the tractor upon stopping.”<\/p>\n

All 21 people who were on the hayride were part of a youth group gathering after Sunday church services of the German Baptist Community and were ages 4 to 19. Several had jumped off the ride before the crash, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n

In all, 10 people were treated for various injuries, while the teen driver remained hospitalized in critical condition as of Monday. <\/p>\n

It appears that a brake issue caused the crash, although the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

“Looking at the right side of the brake, it appeared to be discolored, definitely overheated from going down the hill,” Investigator Dalton Lawson told WENY<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WELLSBURG, N.Y. \u2014 Nearly a dozen people were injured, including one critically, after a tractor rolled over during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[135576,135586,135578,56768,951,114825,17104,135580,135571,2707,135583,24297,135579,9,135585,56,63,65,64,973,3039,135573,135587,56486,60673,30734,135581,135589,135577,126306,135575,135574,1115,135572,135582,5853,135588,135584],"class_list":["post-366050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-10-injured","tag-brake","tag-brake-failure","tag-chemung-county","tag-critical-condition","tag-dozen-people","tag-driver","tag-german-baptist-community","tag-hayride-crash","tag-incident","tag-investigator-dalton-lawson","tag-kmnd","tag-mechanical-issues","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-hayride-crash","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-office","tag-part","tag-pennsylvania-border","tag-several-yard","tag-sheriff","tag-stop-sign","tag-sunday-afternoon","tag-sunday-church","tag-sunday-church-service","tag-teen-driver","tag-tractor","tag-tractor-crash","tag-tractor-rollover","tag-video","tag-wellsburg","tag-weny","tag-youth-group","tag-youth-group-gathering","tag-youth-passengers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366050","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=366050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}