Wrong Way Driver Caused A Three Vehicle Head on Crash With Serious Injuries And Entrapment
On February 8 at 10:55 pm. Belfast, Wellsville and Angelica were dispatched to I-86 for a three vehicle accident. A vehicle was traveling the wrong way between mile marker 114 and 115 Westbound, two vehicles crashed head on and a semi is on its side. There are serious injuries with entrapment. The highway has been shutdown at the Almond exit. Air Medical has been dispatched. Update one fatality has been reported.
ROAD REOPENED AT 9:06 AM on Thursday. Donald J. Rose, 62, of Angelica, N.Y. was killed when police say he drove a 2017 Dodge Ram eastbound in the westbound lane and crashed head-on into another vehicle. Air Medical flew another patient to a Rochester hospital.
The vehicle that was struck by the wrong way driver was a Ford Transit utility/cargo van. The 3rd vehicle was a semi . The semi driver went off the right shoulder to avoid hitting the truck and van that was now blocking both lanes. Because of 911 callers about a wrong way vehicle on I 86 NYSP were responding to alert and stop this vehicle .They arrived right after the accident and called for EMS.