Waterloo, N.Y. — A Hobart and William Smith Colleges student was killed Friday when a car she was riding in was hit by a dump truck and then collided with another car in Seneca County, according to New York State Police.
Killed in the three-vehicle collision was Veronica Ashby, 18, of New York City.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges President Joyce Jacobsen wrote in an email to students and faculty Friday that as a community “we mourn her loss and send our sincere sympathies to her family and friends.”
“Veronica was a graduate of Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts in New York City,” Jacobsen wrote. “Although new to the Hobart and William Smith community, she had already made a profound impact on her peers and educators. They describe her as vibrant, insightful and joyful, a person who made friends easily, and who was very close to her family.”
The accident happened at about 3:45 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Route 96 and Brewer Road in the town of Waterloo, state police said in a news release Monday. That’s about three miles south of the Waterloo Premium Outlets.
Daryannos Marco Kinney, 18, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was driving north on Brewer Road when his car failed to stop at a stop sign at Route 96, police said. It was struck by a westbound dump truck and then struck by a passenger vehicle, police said.
Ashby, who was in the back seat, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
A front seat passenger, Mekhi Bennett, 19, of the Bronx, was airlifted to Upstate University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Kinney was transported to Geneva Hospital for minor injuries.
The dump truck driver, Marc Lesterhuis, 53, of Waterloo, was not injured.
The driver of the third vehicle, Makayla Price, of Waterloo, was not injured.
The investigation is continuing, police said.
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