SOUTHEAST – An accident between a car and a tractor-trailer on Danbury Road in the Town of Southeast claimed the life of the driver of a Toyota Rav4.
State Police have withheld the name of the victim pending identification.
Police said at about 6:45 a.m. on Thursday, January 11, the 2011 SUV was westbound on Danbury Road traveling at a high rate of speed when it struck a 2020 Freightliner with a trailer that was making a left turn from Croton Farms parking lot on the north shoulder to travel east on Danbury Road.
After the impact, both the Rav4 and trailer became engulfed in flames.
The driver of the truck, Julio Estrella Torres, 50, of Amsterdam, New York, was uninjured.
The case remains under investigation.
