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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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