It’s been a brutal stretch across the Northeast—crashes, shootings, stabbings, and arrests stacking up from New York to Boston to Rhode Island. Cops, troopers, and emergency crews were stretched thin as chaos unfolded on highways, city streets, and neighborhood corners.
In upstate New York, a chain of crashes on Interstate 86/State Route 17 between Exits 71 and 68 brought traffic to a crawl Wednesday morning. Troopers, local cops, and sheriff’s deputies scrambled to respond as icy roads sent cars spinning in the Towns of Union, Vestal, and the Village of Johnson City. Five crashes were reported—three with property damage and two with injuries, including one rollover. Miraculously, no one was killed.
Just a day earlier, tragedy struck on State Route 20 in Nassau. Investigators say an eastbound driver crossed the center line and slammed head-on into another car. The westbound driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The other driver was rushed to Albany Medical Center with serious injuries. State Route 20 was shut down for nearly four hours as police reconstructed the deadly crash…