Why one pickup crossed the median and slammed into another remains under investigation
MONTICELLO – A five-year-old girl was ejected and killed in a two-vehicle
crash on Route 17 near Monticello exit 105B Monday afternoon.
The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office reported the child was not in a car seat. The seat was in the back of the pickup truck driven by her father.
The father and his other daughter, a 14-year-old, were critically injured and airlifted to Westchester Medical Center.
The family had recently moved from the Bronx to Rochester and was in the process of bringing belongings to their new home.
Sullivan County Undersheriff Eric Chaboty said the westbound truck crossed the highway median and struck an eastbound pickup carrying a family of four back home to Long Island. Three members were treated and released at Orange Regional Medical Center in the Town of Wallkill. The mother suffered possible fractured ribs.
A State Police reconstruction team was investigating the accident.
This is the second fatal accident in 24 hours on Route 17. Another occurred near exit 116 in Mamakating on Saturday evening when person was ejected from a vehicle. Details of that incident have not yet been made public.
