FOUR VERMONTERS DIE IN FATAL NEW YORK MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Injury Lawyer)

On Sunday June 6, 2010 four Vermont residents died from accident-related injury when their Honda Pilot sport utility vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer hauling ice cream on an upstate New York highway.

State police say 42-year-old Robin Martinez was driving the SUV driver. He died along with 40-year-old Juana Jimenez and two of her children, 13-year-old daughter Jasmil Jimenez and 10-year-old Cesar Jimenez. They all lived in Bennington, Vermont.

Jimenez' 15-year-old daughter and the truck driver suffered injuries that weren't life-threatening.

New York State troopers say that the SUV crossed into the truck's path on Route 7 in rural Pittstown, New York, Sunday morning. They say the family was returning from New York City, where Martinez arrived on an overnight flight from the Dominican Republic. Troopers say driver fatigue may have been a factor in the crash.

Pittstown is about 23 miles northeast of Albany.