January 25, 2021 | Reading Time: 2 min A man was killed in a fatal Queensbury crash on January 14, the New York State Police reported. The accident took place on the Adirondack Northway in Queensbury.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jacob Ladouceur from Ballston Spa was killed in the accident. The initial investigation showed that Ladouceur was going south on 1-87 when he switched lanes into the path of a southbound tractor-trailer.
The driver of the tractor-trailer couldn’t avoid the crash and hit Ladouceur in the back-passenger side of his vehicle.
Ladouceur lost control over his car and stopped into the far-right lane, where he was hit again by another tractor-trailer. His car then moved off the road and flipped over in a wooded area. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The fatal QUeensbury crash remains under investigation.
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Source: https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/state-police-investigate-fatal-northway-accident-in-queensbury