UPDATE:\u00a0<\/p>\n
The deceased driver has been identified as Olive H. Wesley, 61 of Rochester.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The injured passenger is identified as\u00a0Eric A. Trone, age 62, of Rochester, NY, who remains hospitalized in serious condition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver of the tractor trailer is identified as Amritpal Singh, age 30, of Belleville, Ontario.<\/p>\n
The investigation is continuing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ORIGINAL RELEASE:\u00a0<\/p>\n
At approximately 2:30 a.m. on September 4, 2026, State Police assigned to Troop T, SP Buffalo responded to a motor vehicle crash on the New York State Thruway (I-90) in the town of Newstead. Investigation revealed that a 2018 Volvo tractor trailer was traveling westbound when it collided with a disabled 2012 Chevy pickup truck that was on the right shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver of the pickup truck was pronounced deceased at the scene. A passenger in the pickup truck was transported to Erie County Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the tractor trailer was evaluated at the scene with no reported injuries and was administered standardized field sobriety tests, which indicated no signs of impairment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The right lane is currently blocked for response; left lane is open. Traffic delay of several miles due to morning commute volume.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Troop A and Collision Reconstruction Unit responded to the scene. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
Additional information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE:\u00a0 The deceased driver has been identified as Olive H. Wesley, 61 of Rochester.\u00a0 The injured passenger is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-280186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}