Teen driver seriously injured in crash

A Middletown High School student was seriously injured yesterday after crashing her car in the Town of Wawayanda. Elvira Alvarez, 18, of Middletown was flown to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. She was listed yesterday in critical but stable condition.About 8 a.m. yesterday, state police say, Alvarez was heading west in a 1997 Chevrolet on Golf Links Road when she lost control on the narrow-shouldered, two-lane road. Troopers say the Chevy hit a utility pole

New Hampton firefighters and EMTs cut Alvarez free of the wreckage, and she was taken by helicopter to Westchester.

The crash happened on a stretch of road below a curving hill, about half a mile from the intersection with Route 17M. The speed limit is posted at 35 mph, police say. The speed limit changes a few times between 35 and 45 in the roughly three miles between the intersections with Crystal Run Road and 17M.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.Middletown schools Superintendent Ken Eastwood says Alvarez, a star setter on the school's volleyball team, was on her way to classes at Orange-Ulster BOCES in Goshen. The district set up its crisis team yesterday at the high school to help student cope with the news about their classmate.

A resident of Gold Links Road, Charlie Adamo, gathered signatures on a petition asking the town to lower the road's speed limit to 30 mph. Adamo said yesterday that the Wawayanda Town Board tabled the proposal after learning the state Transportation Department would charge the town $20,000 to $50,000 to do the required traffic study. Such a study would take up to two years, with no guarantee that the state would allow the speed limit to be lowered.

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[speshulk3]

@iykist That wasn't my point.  All I was saying was that whoever shot the video just threw in a random shot at the end that didn't fit with the somber tone of the rest of the video.

[iykist]

@speshulk3 what are they meant to do, cry, it is their job, they are used to it.

[vivitar45]

wow they relly do not give a shit about your car and stuff in it and just put garbage in it as the car looks to be scrapyard annyway

[GameTacticsTV]

0:25 They barried him without even taking him out of the car?

[hellblazer116]

that was a great way to end it laughing at a no driving SOB did you see them scooping him back into car that was classic

[XXX250788XXX]

we they were cleaning up the glass and stuff from the accident. Usually what any fire department does after a car accident if the car is considered a total loss we will throw all the glass and stuff into the car to get it off the road so no other accidents could possibly happen

[patatosk8]

why did they put dirt in the car

[SugarySweet98]

ouch

[Kauboy84]

ouch

[speshulk3]

Showing the fire fighters joking with each other after was an odd way to end the video.