Caskill , NY : 87-year-old man was killed after his pickup truck collided with a trooper's patrol vehicle near Hudson Valley road , January 14th 2015

State police say an 87-year-old upstate New York man has died after his pickup truck collided with a trooper's patrol vehicle on a Hudson Valley road.

Police say Trooper David Walsh was driving a marked state police sport utility vehicle around 9:15 a.m. Wednesday on Route 23 in the town of Catskill, 30 miles south of Albany.

They say a pickup driven by Louis Becker of Freehold entered Route 23 from a side road and collided with the SUV.

Becker was taken to Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson, where he was pronounced dead. A passenger in the pickup was treated at the same hospital for injuries that aren't life threatening.

Walsh, a seven-year veteran assigned to the Catskill barracks, was treated and released.




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Man, 87, dies in collision with New York State Police SUV; trooper treated and released