Family trip to Niagara falls ended in tragedy: a car accident killed 2 women and 4-year-old child

Sunday, may 26, about 6:30 a.m. in the Sheldon (new York) there was a terrible accident, which killed a small child and two women. According to the Wyoming County Sheriff Gregory Rudolph, killed 4-year-old girl, another 4 children received injuries of varying severity and were taken to a nearby hospital.

Reportedly, a family from new Jersey, 4 adults and 5 children aged 4 to 14 years, went to Niagara falls on the SUV. In’s (a small town 48 km from Buffalo) at the intersection of Route 20A and Maxon Road in their car at speed crashed into a pickup truck driven by 20-year-old Richard Sawicki.

A young man, as appeared later, was in a state of alcoholic intoxication and was unable to stop his vehicle before a stop sign. The force of the blow was such that 2 women thrown on the road. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

4-year-old girl with severe traumatic brain injury was hospitalized, but doctors were unable to save her.

Other family members survived but were in need of hospitalization. We know that this man, woman, and children 14 and 10, and two kids of 4 years. The man was soon discharged from the hospital. The woman continues treatment in Erie County Medical Center. The children were transported to Oishei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo. Information on their condition yet. Also, the authorities have not yet identified them because their relatives had not been notified about the tragedy.

Richard Sawicki of Lackawanna (NY) was arrested on charges of aggravated murder, driving in a condition of alcoholic intoxication and reckless driving. For him a bond in $200 thousand At the present time he is in County jail Wyoming. The trial is to be held on June 10.

Here is Sawicki»s mugshot after being arraigned in Warsaw Town Court today. He did not post bail. He is currently in the Wyoming County Jail. pic.twitter.com/qhUmWK56Ml

— Jeff Rusack (@JeffRusack) May 26, 2019

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