An Ohio man was killed and two teens hospitalized after a wrong-way collision late last night in Clarkstown. Police Detective Norman Peters says the accident occurred around 9:15pm near the intersection of Route 304 and Second Street in New City. It shut down 304 for several hours as the scene was being handled. The preliminary investigation determined 35 year-old from Ohio was driving a Hyundai heading north in the southbound lanes of 304 when he struck a BMW head-on. Detective Peters says the force of the crash sent the Hyundai onto the center median, and the BMW onto the shoulder on the southbound side. The 18 year-old driver of the BMW and his 16 year-old passenger were successfully extricated and taken by ambulance to Westchester Medical Center with serious physical injuries. The Hyundai driver died at the scene. His identity is being withheld until his family is notified. The Clarkstown Police Department’s Accident Investigation Unit is investigating the cause of the crash. If you saw the accident or if you have any information contact them at 845-639-5800.
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Accident Shuts Clarkstown Roadway Overnight, Injuries Reported
A busy stretch of highway in Clarkstown has been re-opened this morning after a crash late last night that reportedly resulted in injuries. The incident took place on Route 304 between Congers Road and 2nd Street, shutting down all four lanes of traffic behind the Clarkstown Police Station. No other details were available.
Rockland Loses Round in Court to Stop Congestion Pricing, Appeal Being Considered
Challenges to congestion pricing were issued setbacks yesterday by federal court judges in White Plains and New York City who declined requests for preliminary injunctions, including one filed by Rockland County, bringing the January 5th start of congestion pricing closer to a done deal. Another challenge is still being heard in Newark. Rockland County Executive Ed Day told “The Morning Show” Friday the plan is clearly unfair to Rockland and other west-of-Hudson commuters…
Rockland State Senator Bill Weber of the 38th District says it might take legislation on the state level to get rid of the congestion pricing tax…
The county is considering an appeal of the judge’s decision. Unless any of the other legal actions brought by New Jersey and other plaintiffs succeeds, congestion pricing will charge most drivers an extra nine dollars daily, for now, to get into the city and drive below 60th Street.
Port Jervis Man Gets up to Seven Years in State Prison After Fatal DWI Crash
An Orange County man got 2 1/3 to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty in a DWI accident that took the life of an eleven year-old girl last year. Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler says 36 year-old Yeraldo Roa of Port Jervis admitted that he was drunk when he drove across double-yellow lines on Route 6 in the Town of Woodbury and crashed into four oncoming cars on September 23rd, last year. At the time of the crash, he had a blood alcohol content of .20, more than double the limit for DWI. The girl was a passenger in his car, she died after being taken to Garnet Health Medical Center. Occupants of the other vehicles were treated for injuries at St. Luke’s Hospital.
Rockland Congressman Votes to Fund Government Operations, End Threat of Shutdown
A shutdown was narrowly avoided over the weekend as the House and then the Senate passed short-term spending bills to keep the government operational. President Joe Biden signed the bill Saturday, funding federal agencies at current levels for the next three months. It didn’t include everything incoming president Donald Trump wanted, including a hike to the debt ceiling, which was rejected in an earlier draft of the budget bill. WRCR market analyst Connor Mahoney of Mahoney Asset Management says hiking the debt ceiling would have been a financially reckless move…
WRCR market analyst Ken Mahoney of Mahoney Asset Management says he’s looking forward to the day when budgets are simply drawn up and spending is kept to the most important projects…
The bill passed in the House with overwhelming support by a vote of 366 to 34, all the “no” votes were Republicans, and in the Senate the bill passed 85 to 11, with 10 of the “no” votes coming from Republicans and Independent Bernie Sanders.