Vehicle Strikes Four People In Parking Lot

Modified: June 27, 2019 3:02pm

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06/26/2019

Buffalo, NY – Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard announces the Crash Investigation Unit remains at the scene of a fatal incident that occurred at approximately 7:20 a.m. Wednesday morning in the parking lot of an auction house on West Main Street in the Village of Springville.

 

A vehicle struck four people in the parking lot.  Two pedestrians were treated at the scene and released, a third victim sustained non-life threatening injuries to the lower body and was transported to Bertrand Chaffee Hospital, and the fourth victim was transported to Erie County Medical Center in critical condition and later died.

 

The crash unit is investigating the incident.  The names of the individuals involved in the incident are being withheld at this time. 

 

Update: 

 

Buffalo, NY – Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard reports the victim from the fatal accident in the parking lot of an auction house on West Main Street in the Village of Springville has been identified as Howard J. Weiss, age 63 of Buffalo. 

 

The Erie County Sheriff’s Office Crash Investigation Unit is continuing its investigation at this time.