BETHLEHEM — Police have identified the person killed over the weekend in the three-vehicle crash on Interstate 87 as Claudia Hargis-Grover, a 63-year-old woman from Glens Falls.
Hargis-Grover was driving with a passenger around 4:44 p.m. Saturday near Exit 23 when the crash occurred. Troopers said the driver of a Chevrolet sedan was driving “at a high rate of speed” in the left lane of the highway when he tried to move into the right lane, sideswiping a pickup truck. The driver moved back into the left lane, where the sedan rear-ended Hargis-Grover’s car.
Her car came to a stop on the left shoulder after striking a guardrail.
Hargis-Grover was pronounced dead at the scene. Her passenger was taken to Albany Medical Center hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The driver and a passenger in the pickup truck were taken to Samaritan Hospital — Albany Memorial Campus, also with non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the Chevrolet sedan, a 37-year-old man from Virginia, has been charged with multiple vehicle and traffic law violations. Troopers said he showed no signs of impairment after completing a field sobriety test. An alcohol breath test was negative, police said.