A driver was killed when a wrong-way vehicle crashed into his vehicle on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Westchester County early Sunday morning, leaving the victim's car engulfed in raging flames, police said.
Westchester County Police said they responded to several 911 calls around 5:08 a.m. reporting a vehicle traveling south in the northbound lanes of the road had collided with another vehicle about a half-mile south of King Street in the Village of Rye Brook.
Police responded to the scene to find one of the cars “fully engulfed in flames” and the driver, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the wrong-way car Was taken out of the car He was taken by ambulance to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla where he is currently receiving treatment, but there was no immediate information available on the extent of his injuries.
Patrol officers, the Accident Investigation Team and detectives from WCPD's General Investigations Unit are still investigating the cause of the accident, the department said in a statement. Facebook Post Late Sunday morning.
As of noon, traffic was being detoured from the northbound Hutchinson River Parkway at the Ridge Street exit. One lane on the southbound side of the parkway remains closed as the investigation continues.
WCPD said they do not expect any additional information about the accident to be available until Monday.
This latest tragic crash is one of several fatal wrong-way train accidents that have occurred on the New York subway in recent weeks.
Kelly Bedrick, a 32-year-old mother from Long Island, was driving the wrong way on the Southern State Parkway at around 2:15 a.m. on August 22nd, causing a four-vehicle pileup and killing her 9-year-old son. Prior to this accident, her driver's license had been suspended an astounding 56 times. She is being held without bail.
Two days later, on Aug. 24, two men were killed in Harlem when a pickup truck went the wrong way on Henry Hudson northbound near West 154th Street at about 2:20 a.m., police said. The passenger was arrested about 30 feet from the scene, but the driver fled the scene and remains missing.
Rye Brook is a small Westchester village of just under 10,000 people located about 35 miles north of New York City.
