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For the third day in a row, a Western New York resident has died as a result of a motorcycle accident.
State Police say 52-year-old Roy Beverlin, Jr. failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway on Bolton Road in the Town of Ashford and crashed, striking a fence and trees. A passing motorist found him unresponsive and called 911.
Beverlin was pronounced dead at the scene.
A man was injured in a fiery crash of a tractor-trailer truck and a van on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge that snarled traffic on the Staten Island Expressway during the height of rush hour on Tuesday morning.
The 23-year-old driver of the van was taken to Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze with non-life threatening injuries, said MTA spokeswoman Judie Glave.
The upper level of the span was closed for about two hours as a result of the incident, Ms. Glave said.
Suffolk County Police Second Squad detectives are investigating a one-car crash that killed an 83-year-old man in Melville last night.
Rafael Ortiz, 57, was driving a 2001 Toyota Camry west on the Long Island Expressway when the vehicle veered off the roadway, striking a pole, east of Exit 50 in Melville at approximately 7:25 p.m.