UPDATE: investigation into Fridays car accident

The preliminary investigation revealed that a 2003 Chevrolet Venture driven by Abraham Weisz of Williamsburg, Brooklyn was traveling westbound on the highway in the Town of Blooming Grove yesterday afternoon with a young married couple as passengers. Weisz and Zev Tietielbaum, 23, and his wife, Faigy, 20, were killed. They were all wearing seat-belts.

Police said Weisz apparently lost control of his vehicle while traveling in the left lane of the highway, crossed the grass median and into the eastbound lane. Eric Delgado, 41, was driving eastbound in a 1999 freight tractor-trailer truck loaded with crushed cars. His truck struck Weisz’s vehicle on the passenger side, demolishing the vehicle. Delgado’s truck then crossed the median, crossed the westbound lanes, crashed through a guide rail and came to rest partially down an embankment.

Delgado was transported to the Orange Regional Medical Center’s Arden Hill campus where he was treated for neck and back injuries.

The investigation is continuing, and there are no criminal charges at this time.