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Retiring from the planning board, Bill Childs receives a proclamation on Dec. 12 from the New
Scotland Town Board for his years of service. "I wish to thank those that I worked with," Childs said
tearfully. "Iwill cherish this in the coming years." From left: Childs; Council members, Andrea Gleason,
Scott Houghtaling, Cathy Connors, Supervisor Martha Pofit, and Richard Reilly; and Bob Staph, chair
of the planning board.
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Claim follows car accident l\
By Nicole Fay Barr
Crow Ridge Road, the Albany
VOORHEESVILLE — The County Sheriffs Patrol told The
family of a man who died in a Enterprise in January. Peek
July car accident has filed a no- crashed into Erica Bader, 20,
tice of claim against Albany who was traveling west on the
County, the town of New Scot- road. The women, both of Westland, and the village of erlo, were both taken to Albany
Medical Center for head, leg, and
Voorheesville.
The notice was filed by the arm injuries.
mother of the victim, David B.
"I have no doubt [Route 85A] is
Maher, 22, of Bethlehem. Mary in excellent condition," Peter
Maher filed the notice in the VanKeuren, regional spokesman
event that she might want to sue, for the New York Department of
said Voorheesville mayor, Ed Transportation told The EnterClark.
prise this week.
The Mahers would not comVanKeuren said that each
ment on the reasons they might summer a surveyor evaluates the
sue.
physical condition of Route 85A,
Will Smith, Voorheesville superintendent of public works,
would not comment on the condition of Crow Ridge Road or on
accident history for that area. He
said he would not comment on
the advice of his attorney, because there is the possibility that
the notice of claim may go further.
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which is a state road, checking
the surface for cracking and
smoothness. "This year the road
was rated nine, which is an excellent rating," he said.
Both Route 85A and Crow
Ridge Road are on the department's list of high-priority intersections, VanKeuren said. The
state investigates after any fatality, and it did after Maher's.
"Both Crow Ridge Road and
Route 85A looked good after our
investigation," VanKeuren said.
The state's Department of Motor Vehicles reports accident
statistics to the Department of
Transportation every few years.
VanKeuren said the last report
was for the years 1994 to 1999,
and there were four accidents at
the intersection in that time.
"It is not a high-accident area,"
he said. "Five thousand vehicles
a day travel [Route 85A] in each
direction; four accidents are not
many at all.... The signage is
good [near the intersection], and
it's well-lit. We have a street light
at the intersection."
VanKeuren added that he
thought Crow Ridge , Road
looked to be in good condition as
well.
Crow Ridge Road is partly a
town road and partly a village •
road. Its intersection with Route
85A is on the Voorheesville section of the road.
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'It's not a high-accident area.'
The notice was filed on Oct. 29,
said Jim Plastiras, spokesman for
Michael Breslin, Albany County's
executive. Plastiras would not
comment on details of the notice.
David Maher was traveling
north on Crow Ridge Road on
July 28 when he lost control of
his car where the road intersects
Route 85A. Maher then struck a
guardrail and a tree.
"Excessive speed was a major
contributing factor," Investigator
Michael Monteleone of the Albany County Sheriffs Department told The Enterprise in August. He said there were no signs
of drug or alcohol use involved in
the accident,
Maher's passenger, William J..
Bush, 23, of Littleton, Colo., was
taken to Albany Medical Center
at the time and treated for head
injuries.
Maher, a 1997 Bethlehem High
School graduate, was a student
at Hudson Valley Community
College.
Maher had an impact on many
in his community. Over 600 people attended his wake, making it
the second biggest wake Applebee's Funeral Home in Delmar
has ever had.
In January of 2001, another
accident occurred at the same intersection. Shannon Peek, 18,
was traveling east on Route 85A
at a high speed when she crossed
the center line on a curve near
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