TOWN OF WALLKILL – An 18-year-old Ossining man was killed on Monday morning in a crash between a 2019 Ford and a 2025 Mack truck on Route 17 in the Town of Wallkill.
He was a passenger in the Ford identified as Kevin Zhagui-Morocho.
The accident occurred just before 7 a.m. when State Police said the Ford was traveling westbound on the highway when the Mack truck was merging onto the westbound lanes from the right shoulder.
The Ford traveled from the left to the right lane for unknown reasons where it struck the rear of the Mack truck.
The driver of the Ford, Jorge Jarma-Barreto, 28, of Ossining, was transported to Garnet Health Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the truck, Chad Rannels, 50, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was not injured.
The investigation is continuing and troopers ask anyone who witnessed the collision to contact the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Middletown at 845-344-5300.
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