BLACK RIVER, New York (WWNY) – A Carthage man dies after a 3-vehicle crash Friday on State Route 3 in Black River.
State Police say 32-year-old Shane Umstead of Plessis was driving east when his Ram pickup truck hit the back of a Hyundai Elantra which was stopped in traffic. 74-year-old Roxanne O’Connor of Carthage was driving the Elantra.
Police say that impact pushed O’Connor’s car into the path of an oncoming dump truck being driven by 51-year-old Joseph England of Adams.
O’Connor suffered non-life-threatening injuries and went to Watertown’s Samaritan Medical Center. A passenger in her car, 79-year-old Charles Taylor of Carthage went to Samaritan, was flown to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, where he was pronounced deceased.
No other injuries were reported in the crash.
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