Two adults are dead and one 17-year-old boy was seriously injured in a wrong-way crash in the Hudson Valley area early Wednesday morning, New York State Police said.
The head-on vehicle collision happened just before 2 a.m. on a highway in the Village of Chester, approximately 60 miles northwest of Midtown Manhattan.
According to state troopers, the female driver of a 2009 Nissan was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of State Route 17, when she collided head-on with a 2014 Honda Odyssey.
Both the driver of the Nissan, later identified as 25-year-old Sydney M. Haines, of Blackwood, N.J., and the other driver, 54-year-old Mordichy Zafir, of Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., were pronounced dead at the scene.
A 17-year-old male passenger of the Honda, also from Kiamesha Lake, was “seriously injured” in the crash and rushed to Garnet Medical Center in Middletown, N.Y.
His condition wasn’t immediately available Thursday morning.
Zafir, a rabbi and a member of the Vizhnitz community, was returning home from a wedding in Monsey, N.Y., according to multiple reports. The young victim is described as his son.
Authorities have not said what may have led Haines to drive on the wrong side of Route 17.
The crash remains under investigation, NYSP said. Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to contact the State Police Monroe Bureau of Criminal Investigation at (845) 344-5300.