{"id":82386,"date":"2025-12-28T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82386\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:06:08","slug":"nyc-dep-employee-identified-as-victim-in-fridays-town-of-newburgh-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82386\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC DEP employee identified as victim in Friday&#8217;s Town of Newburgh crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOWN OF NEWBURGH \u2013 A New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) employee has been identified as the victim of a motor vehicle accident on Friday morning on State Route 9W in the Town of Newburgh.<\/p>\n<p>DEP employee Ed Walters was fatally injured while on his way to work at Hillview Reservoir. Walters has been at DEP since 2002 and worked in the Bureau of Water Supply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/midhudsonnews.com\/2025\/12\/27\/nyc-dep-employee-identified-as-victim-in-fridays-town-of-newburgh-crash\/edwalters\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-273446 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-273446 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edwalters-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/><\/a>Ed Walters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire DEP family is grieving today,\u201d said DEP Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala. \u201cEd was a valued and experienced employee who served DEP and the City of New York with distinction for more than two decades. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and co-workers at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at about 7:30 a.m. in the area of AGL Welding on 9W. Walter was taken to St. Luke\u2019s Montefiore Hospital in Newburgh, where they were pronounced dead. The Town of Newburgh Police Department and State Police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF NEWBURGH \u2013 A New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) employee has been identified as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40570,40571,8939,9,40572,56,63,65,64,40573],"class_list":{"0":"post-82386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-9w","9":"tag-ed-walters","10":"tag-fatal-crash","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city-department-of-environmental-protection","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-town-of-newburgh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82386","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=82386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}