{"id":1015635,"date":"2026-08-21T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015635\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:44:22","slug":"st-lawrence-co-man-killed-in-western-ny-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015635\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lawrence Co. man killed in western NY crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHAUTAUQUA, New York (WWNY) &#8211; According to multiple news reports, a St. Lawrence County man was killed in a crash Thursday in western New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wivb.com\/news\/crime\/2-dead-in-fatal-car-crash-in-town-of-chautauqua\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wivb.com\/news\/crime\/2-dead-in-fatal-car-crash-in-town-of-chautauqua\/\">WIVB in Buffalo reported<\/a> that Doug Griffith, 51, of Massena, was killed on Route 430 in the town of Chautauqua shortly after 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Chautauqua County Sheriff\u2019s Office said its investigation determined that a vehicle driven by 23-year-old Alexander Morelli of Meadville, PA, was traveling eastbound and failed to keep right, crossing over a double solid center line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said he struck a vehicle traveling westbound, driven by Griffith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both men were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAUTAUQUA, New York (WWNY) &#8211; According to multiple news reports, a St. Lawrence County man was killed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1015636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,406344,4903,406343,11767,32311,83344,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1015635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-chautauqua","tag-crash","tag-doug-griffith","tag-fatal","tag-killed","tag-massena","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117135452722601971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}