On Route 20, radar clocks car at 95 mph before fatal crash

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 18:27

GUILDERLAND — Cory Ash of Albany was driving a stolen car at 95 miles per hour on Western Avenue at 12:40 a.m. Tuesday, not long before he hit a guardrail at Schoolhouse Road, killing him, police say.

The car had been reported stolen from the city of Albany minutes before the crash, according to a release from the Guilderland Police.

Ash was extricated from the heavily damaged car; he was treated on the scene and rushed to Albany Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead. He was 23.

The crash sent Ash’s car careening into the parking lot of the Citizens Bank. The force of the crash left a guardrail lying in the road, and the bank building damaged by debris from the car.

His speed was observed by a Guilderland police officer near Crossgates Mall, police say. The officer did not chase the vehicle, but did try to find it, checking Western Avenue into the city and also notifying Albany City Police and University at Albany Police about the speeding car shortly before it crashed.

Ash was alone in the car. Schoolhouse Road was closed from the time of the accident until about 7 a.m. Guilderland Police and the McKownville Fire Department responded to the accident.

 

Corrected on April 14, 2016: The fire department that responded to the crash was McKownville. 

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