MOUNT PLEASANT – A 61-year-old Peekskill man was killed in a wrong-way accident with an off-duty NYPD police officer from Warwick on Thursday on the Taconic State Parkway in the Town of Mount Pleasant.
According to a preliminary State Police investigation, Tiffany P. Howell, 47, was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes in a 2021 Infiniti when she struck a 2024 Toyota operated by Manuel Boitel head-on. Boitel was transported to Westchester Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Howell was taken to Westchester Medical Center with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. She is a member of the NYPD. As required under NYS Executive Law Section 70-b, the State Attorney General’s Office has been notified of the incident.
The investigation remains ongoing, and anyone who may have witnessed this incident is asked to contact the New York State Police Hawthorne Bureau of Criminal Investigation at 914-742-6057.
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