3 Injured, Including Police Officer, Following Car Crash in Orange County

An Orange County police officer and others were injured following a multiple vehicle crash.

Town of Wallkill Police Officer Brendan Smith was traveling north on Route 17M at the intersection of Highland Avenue extension when he collided with a second car.

An investigation determined that Rebecca Travis, of Monticello was stopped and attempting to turn left into a Cumberland Farms gas station when Smith’s police car crashed into Travis’s vehicle.

Travis’s car then hit a third car, driven by Matthew Donely, that was traveling southbound on Route 17M. Donely refused medical treatment at the scene.

Travis was taken to the Orange Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.

Officer Smith inured his head during the crash. He was treated at Orange Regional Medical Center and released.