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A Duke Center, Pa., man died in WCA Hospital in Jamestown after his boat capsized on Chautauqua Lake near Bemus Point a day earlier.
Robert W. Knell Sr., 69, of Duke Center, who died Saturday, was fishing on Friday afternoon with his friend when their 14-foot boat capsized because of weather conditions.
An officer with the Jamestown-based New York State Police said the boat that Knell and Roy Barclay, 65, of Derrick City, Pa., were in, capsized due to high winds and heavy rain.
A southern tier woman is accused of driving drunk and fleeing the scene of an accident with another motorist.
Deputies were called to the intersection of Ivory Street and Falconer in Frewsburg around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday for a property damage accident involving two vehicles. But by the time authorities arrived, one of the drivers had fled.
Investigators say the public helped them locate the driver, 46-year-old Amy Schulz, who was arrested at her home a short time later.
Severe winter weather conditions that caused a white-out on Route 5 in the Silver Creek section of the Town of Sheridan caused a 12-vehicle accident at noontime Thursday and sent ten persons, including two Chautauqua County sheriff’s deputies to area hospitals with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries, the sheriff’s office announced in Mayville.
The incident began as a sheriff’s patrol car was traveling east in the 2400 block of Route 5 in Silver Creek when numerous disabled vehicles were stopped in white-out conditions in the east bound lane.
The Ripley driver of one car involved in Saturday’s head-on collision on Pelton Road in Sherman was listed in critical condition Sunday in Hamot Medical Center, Erie, Pa.
Dakota Bird, 19, was taken by ambulance to Westfield Hospital, then airlifted by Starflight to the Erie hospital.
The driver and one of two passengers in the other car, Ronald Miller, 21, of Mayville, and Stephany Cloutier, 20, of Ripley, are also patients in Hamot but their conditions were unavailable.