WCDO Radio News

State Police responded to a single vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon on State Highway 23 in the town of Morris. An investigation at the scene determined that the operator of the vehicle, 65 year old Michael Welsh of Cooperstown attempted to avoid a deer and went off the roadway, crashing into a fence post then went into a ditch, Welsh did not survive, his passenger 74 year old Margaret Welsh of Cooperstown was transported to Bassett Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.