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Driver Killed In Wrong-Way Head-On Crash On Old Route 17 In Rockland Just North Of NJ Line

UPDATE: A driver was killed in a wrong-way head-on crash just across the New Jersey border in Rockland County, authorities confirmed.

The fatal crash occurred just north of the NJ/NY state line.

The fatal crash occurred just north of the NJ/NY state line.

Photo Credit: NYSP

Investigators were trying to determine why the southbound 2007 Honda Accord veered into the oncoming lane and collided with a fully loaded tree truck on Old Route 17 in Tuxedo shortly after 7:30 a.m. Monday, April 18, New York State Police said.

The Honda driver, who had to be extricated by firefighters, was pronounced dead a short time later at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, State Police said.

Two occupants in the tree truck emerged OK, they said following the crash near Sloatsburg, less than a couple of miles from the New Jersey border.

Identifications were being temporarily withheld.

Tuxedo and Ramapo police assisted.

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