CORNWALL – A 47-year-old Queens man was struck and killed as he walked in the area of 186 Angola Road in Cornwall.
Town Police said the victim, Juan Sumba, was walking at about 8:40 p.m. on Tuesday, January 13 when a 2011 Toyota Rav 4 driven by 79-year-old Ira Margolis of Highland Mills, traveling south on Angola Road, struck the victim.
Sumba was transported by Cornwall EMS to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh where he died, Police Chief Joseph Gebert said.
Margolis remained at the scene of the accident and was fully cooperative.
While the incident remains under investigation by the police detective division, no criminality is suspected at this time, the chief said.
Cornwall Town Police were assisted at the scene by Cornwall EMS, New Windsor EMS, Cornwall Fire Department, Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson Police and the State Police BCI and Collision Re-Construction Unit.
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