A Beacon woman was killed in a two-car crash on Route 9G.

On Thursday around 4 p.m., New York State Police and the Germantown Fire Department began investigating a two-car fatal accident that happened just south of Palatine Park Road on State Route 9G in the Town of Germantown.

The load of a commercial vehicle traveling north on State Route 9G was hit by a car driving in the opposite direction, the police say. The driver of the southbound car, 60-year-old Sibilla Patrizi of Beacon was found dead at the scene of the crash.

The cause of the collision is still under investigation.

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