A Fort Plain woman was identified Tuesday as the driver killed in a Monday night crash at exit 24 of the Thruway that sent six others to the hospital.

At least five others — three of them children — were taken to Albany Medical Center with what were believed to be non-life-threatening injuries, New York State Police said.

Police identified the driver who was killed as Braylynn S. Fahy, 30, of Fort Plain.

The investigation determined Fahy merged onto Interstate 90 westbound from the exit 24 ramp, crossed all lanes of travel and was hit by a westbound vehicle traveling in the left lane.

Fahy was traveling with a second adult and three children, who were injured. The driver and an adult passenger in the second car were also hurt.

The investigation remained ongoing Tuesday, police said.

Ismael Torres pushed his shovel past his Kia SUV at about 11 a.m. Tuesday. He pushed all the way across the street before tossing the shovelful off the road. He repeated the effort until he could get his vehicle out of its parking spot, then sprinkled salt over the space as a car skidded by on Northampton Road in Amsterdam.

“I don’t see the plow — not over here,” Torres said. His apartment complex is off Route 30, north of downtown, and even as a 10-ton truck equipped with a plow scraped Route 30 clear a few yards away, he still had difficulty getting out of the complex.

Ten minutes later, a plow came by, clearing his street again.

Maybe he just should’ve stayed home.

The first notable snowfall of the season saw cars and trucks off the road across the Greater Capital Region as schools, Meals on Wheels programs and other services shut down for the day.

Eight inches of snow fell on Clifton Park in Saratoga County by 3 p.m., but only 2.8 inches on Perth in Fulton County. Schenectady saw 7 inches, as did Preston Hollow in Greene County.

“Stay safe and cozy at home,” said Deanna Marks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Albany. She had been watching some of the site cameras the service maintains along highways and interstates.

“There have been a lot of accident reports. The roads are pretty sloppy out there,” she said.

Snow heavy, injuries light

No major injuries were reported, although State Police Troop G public information officer Trooper Stephanie O’Neill said she’d counted 104 accidents and vehicles off the road between 6 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

“They’re just rolling in right now,” she said, including two jackknifed tractor trailers on Interstate 87 — one near exit 15 near Saratoga Springs and one near exit 8 near Clifton Park.

Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies responded to eight accidents through the morning and Greene County dealt with 15. Fulton County had none into the afternoon.

“The snow is coming down faster than the plows can keep up with it,” said Dan King, deputy director of Greene County Emergency Services.

Most of the accidents were minor, but several involved multiple vehicles, including a tractor-trailer that got stuck going up a hill on Route 23A at Horseshoe Bend.

“They’re waiting for the state plow to get there,” King said.

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