Police: 1 dead, 1 injured in Chestnut Ridge crash
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Jan 02, 2021, 4:53am EST
A woman is dead after crashing into the back of a tractor-trailer in Chestnut Ridge Friday.
Police say 26-year-old Mardochena Louis slammed into the truck just after 2:30 a.m. on I-87.
Her passenger, 35-year-old Quinten Jackson, is hospitalized in serious but stable condition.
The victims were both from Spring Valley.
No one else was hurt.
The crash is under investigation.
One person was killed when a Mercedes-Benz crashed into a tractor-trailer overnight in the area.
The incident happened on Friday, Jan. 1 at approximately 2:30 a.m. in Rockland County on the southbound side of I-87 in Chestnut Ridge.
A preliminary investigation determined that Dante M. Damanti, age 41, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, located a disabled vehicle in the right southbound lane at mile marker 24.4, according to state police
Damanti parked his 2018 Freightliner tractor-trailer in the right lane, behind the disabled vehicle, and set up orange hazard triangles while awaiting a tow truck, state police said.
While the tow truck was loading the disabled vehicle, a 2015 Mercedes-Benz traveling southbound, struck the rear of the tractor-trailer.
One person was killed when a Mercedes-Benz crashed into a tractor-trailer overnight in the area.
The incident happened on Friday, Jan. 1 at approximately 2:30 a.m. in Rockland County on the southbound side of I-87 in Chestnut Ridge.
A preliminary investigation determined that Dante M. Damanti, age 41, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, located a disabled vehicle in the right southbound lane at mile marker 24.4, according to state police
Damanti parked his 2018 Freightliner tractor-trailer in the right lane, behind the disabled vehicle, and set up orange hazard triangles while awaiting a tow truck, state police said.
While the tow truck was loading the disabled vehicle, a 2015 Mercedes-Benz traveling southbound, struck the rear of the tractor-trailer.