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Newfield Motor Vehicle Accident Leaves Eight Injured
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A three-vehicle car crash in Newfield, NY — 15 minutes outside of Ithaca — left eight people injured on Tuesday, Aug. 1.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/car_accident/)
A three-vehicle car crash in Newfield, NY — 15 minutes outside of Ithaca — left eight people injured on Tuesday, Aug. 1.
The driver continued to flee after striking the woman, and she was airlifted to a regional trauma center, according to the Ithaca Police Department press release.
Kelly Anne Perkins, a 19-year-old Ithaca College freshman, died in a two-vehicle car crash on Monday in Caroline, N.Y., according to an Tompkins County press release.
The woman was struck near the corner of West Buffalo Street and North Geneva Street.
Peiran “Joyce” Shi ’19 passed away in a car accident on Interstate 80 in New Jersey on Monday evening, according to an email from Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Gretchen Ritter.
David Yang ’11 of Hillsborough, N.J. was killed Sunday evening while riding with his girlfriend in a Suzuki Forenza that was struck broadside by a Ford F-150 pickup truck at approximately 5:30 p.m. Yang was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident several miles northwest of Springfield, Mo., and the drivers of the two cars were transported to nearby hospitals with minor to moderate injuries.
Yang was returning from Oklahoma with his girlfriend ,Brianna Paolicelli of Millford, N.J., who was teaching in Oklahoma during the summer. According to the police report, Paolicelli was driving at the time of the accident and was taken to St. Johns Hospital of Springfield with minor injuries, while the driver of the pickup truck suffered moderate injuries.