On Friday evening, October 14 a motorcyclist was killed in a fatal collision with a state police trooper.

According to the state police, at around 7.45p.m., Trooper Cody J. Vetter was responding to a call involving a person with a knife at a football game at a Millbrook High School and was traveling eastbound on Route 44. He had on his emergency lights and sirens. At the intersection of Route 44 and Sharon Turnpike in the Town of Washington he collided with a motorcycle driven by 45 year old Warren Corbitt of Brooklyn.

Corbitt was pronounced dead at the scene and Vetter was taken to Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie with minor injuries and released.

The crash is under investigation by the state police who are also asking for witnesses.

If you were involved in an accident, please call the Poughkeepsie accident attorneys of Denlea & Carton LLP., at (914) 331-0100 right away or contact us online today.

On Saturday, July 25, a man from Poughkeepsie man was killed in a motorcycle crash.

According to police, the crash happened shortly after 8.30 p.m. on Vincent Road in the Town of LaGrange. According to witnesses, 49 year old Bobby Anderson, was traveling at high speed passing many vehicles in a no pass zone and then he lost control of his motorcycle. The bike fell and slid along the road with Anderson still on it and eventually came to rest in a field.

He suffered major internal injuries and two off duty nurses who saw the crash and who were traveling along Noxon Road, performed CPR. He was then taken to MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center where he died under an hour later.

Police are continuing their investigation and awaiting the results of toxicology to know if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the accident.

If you were involved in an auto accident, please call the Poughkeepsie motor vehicle accident attorneys of Denlea & Carton LLP., at (914) 331-0100 right away or contact us online today.