Florida man, age 78, killed in car accident in Somerset
SOMERSET – A 78-year-old man from Florida was killed in a car accident on Tuesday afternoon in the Town of Somerset, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Louis A. Greenwald of Lake Wales in Florida was driving a 2024 Nissan northbound on Carmen Road at about 2:31 p.m. The Sheriff’s Office said he failed to yield the right of way to a 2019 GMC driven by Earl Foster, 77, of Wilson. Foster was east bound on Lake Road.
The GMC stuck the Nissan, after which it traveled into the cornfield northeast of the intersection where it came to rest. The Nissan came to rest in the intersection upon the roadway, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
Foster was transported by ambulance to Lockport Memorial Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
Greenwald was transported by Mercy Flight to ECMC where he was succumbed to his injuries a short time later.
