Driver Dead After Tractor-Trailer Destroys N.Y. Business, Knocks Sleeping Woman's Bed Onto Truck: Police

A man died and a woman was injured after a tractor-trailer crashed into a local bar and grill in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Craig Allen Dickson, 33, of Hopewell Junction, was killed Monday when his 2020 Peterbilt tractor partially plowed through Junior’s Lounge, according to Hyde Park police.

The Dutchess County Medical Examiners Officer pronounced Dickson dead at the scene of the crash.

Investigators believe Dickson was involved in a separate crash before his truck crashed into Junior’s Lounge.

Witnesses claimed to have seen the tractor trailer “driving erratically” and entering the westbound lane of traffic on Salt Point Turnpike “several times” prior to colliding with a 2021 Toyota Highlander, which flipped over, police said in the news release.

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Shortly after leaving the scene, Dickson’s truck soon crashed into the Lounge, police said, noting that the truck “appears to have over-corrected or was deflected from that crash” when it veered off the south shoulder of the Turnpike and hit the building.

Though the building no longer remains, Julia Rossi hopes her father’s business is not gone forever.

“After 40-plus years, we never thought this was how we would go out,” she told the outlet. “So I don’t think it’s the end. I hope it’s not the end, at least.”

An investigation into Monday’s incident is ongoing, according to Hyde Park police.

source: people.com