RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service

Situation Update No. 6

Posted:2010-03-14, 04:10:56 [UTC]

Ref.no.: ST-20100314-25319-USA

Situation Update No. 6
On 2010-03-14 at 18:17:46 [UTC]

Event: Extreme Weather
Location: USA MultiStates States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut

Number of Deads: 3 person(s)

Rhode Island State Police say an off-duty trooper has died in a crash after losing control of his car in a pool of water left over from the weekend's storms. Police say 41-year-old James Dougherty Jr., a detective sergeant, was killed early Sunday in West Greenwich. They say his car hydroplaned in a large patch of standing water and hit a utility pole. Police say the wind-whipped storm that lashed the region has left large patches of standing water throughout the area and pushed some rivers to their banks. High winds early Sunday also toppled a tree in South Kingstown, which it fell on a house and pulled down power lines. The storm is part of a larger patch of poor weather that has lashed New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and southwestern Connecticut with high winds and heavy rain.