A 16-year-old boy has died after a sport utility vehicle went off a road in Dutchess County, overturned and landed in Wappinger Creek.
Sgt. Michael Dampf of the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office says 16-year-old Paul Williams Jr. of Yonkers was taken to Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie after the accident at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The accident happened in Clinton Corners.
Dampf said a 42-year-old man was driving the Ford Explorer. He was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. His name was not immediately released.
The cause is under investigation.
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