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6 People Killed in Head On Collision with Dump Trunk

State Police and Sullivan Sheriffs investigate the scene on Rt.17B in Monticello. Six people in a car were killed after losing control and hitting a Sullivan County D.P.W. dump truck. The driver of the dump truck was taken with minor injuries to Catskill Regional Medical Centter in Harris. Witness reports stated the car had just been called in as an agressive driver.

Mongaup Valley โ€“ Six young people, apparently from a local camp, were killed just before noon today, when their gray Toyota veered into the wrong lane on Route 17B and hit a green Sullivan County Department of Public Works truck, according to offcials at the scene.

The young people were pronounced dead at the scene by coroner Elton Harris. The DPW driver was taken to Catksill Regional Medical Center where he was being treated. His condition was not immediately available.

The collision, which occured on a hill in front of the Marcy South power line between the Far Site and Be’er Hatorah bungalow colonies, was the third fatal accident in less than two weeks in Sullivan County, where the population triples in the summer. The total number of lives claimed is eight. The victims did not appear to be Hasidic.

More pictures of the tragedy in the extended article

A witness to the accident collapes and prayes on Rt.17B as his friend is interviewed
State Police and Sullivan Sheriffs investigate the scene yesterday afternoon on Rt.17B in Monticello. Six people in a car were killed after loosing control and hitting a Sullivan County D.P.W. dump truck. The driver of the dump truck was taken with minor injuries to Catskill Regional Medical Center in Harris. Witness reports stated the car had just been called in as an agressive driver.
Sullivan Sherrif’s Under Sherrif Joe Decker and District Attorney Steve Lungen leave after surveying the scene.
State Police and Sullivan Sheriffs investigate then Rt.17B in Monticello. Six people in a car were killed after loosing control and hitting a Sullivan County D.P.W. dump truck.

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5 Comments

  • a jew

    Sad either way for yound lives to be snuffed out in a moments time. No comments are needed really.

  • Susan

    What is it going to take before people realize that speed limits are not suggestions ? Sadly, the most aggressive drivers on the road think that something like this can never happen to them and when it does, they all too often take innocents with them.

  • Dave

    As was shown on news channels that by one of the funurals there were people with yarmulkas which means there were jews in the accident, how can your first comments be reported that no Jews were involved. Please clearify before making comments.

  • Judith

    Far Site used to belong to my Grandfather – Nathan Furtzaig. Sad this horrific accident ended the lives of these children on a summers day. What a busy road this has become which runs along in front of hte old Far Site Bungalow colony. This was a happy place for us to stay, long ago in the 1950’s.