AMSTERDAM, New York — One person was killed and two others were injured in a two-car crash late Friday night on State Highway 30 in the town of Amsterdam, in Montgomery County, the county sheriff's office said. The crash happened at about 11:30 p.m. on Friday, November 13, 2026, on State Highway 30 near Miami Avenue, according to Montgomery County Sheriff Jeffery T. Smith, whose account was reported by WRGB.

Source: WRGB CBS 6, via EuropeSays

Three people were transported to St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam for treatment. One of them had suffered fatal injuries in the crash, Sheriff Smith said, and the two others were still being treated as of early Saturday morning. The highway was closed for a period of time while deputies and reconstruction specialists worked at the scene.

The Sheriff's Office was assisted at the scene by the Schenectady County Sheriff's Office Accident Reconstruction Team, the New York State Police, Lake Valley EMS, the Amsterdam Fire Department and the Hagaman Volunteer Fire Department — a turnout that reflects both the seriousness of the crash and the way fatal collisions in this part of the Mohawk Valley are investigated, with a neighbouring county's reconstruction specialists called in to map the scene.

What is known, and what is not

Sheriff Smith's first account, as reported Saturday, establishes the time, the place, the number of vehicles and the toll: two cars, three people taken to hospital, one of them fatally injured. It does not yet establish how the crash happened — which direction each vehicle was travelling, whether speed, weather or a medical episode played any part, or whether any charges are being considered. The Sheriff's Office said more details will be released when the investigation is complete.

The name of the person who died had not been officially released in the reports available on Saturday. Awaaz Punjab does not publish a crash victim's name from unofficial memorial posts ahead of the sheriff's own release: families learn of a death from officials, not from a news feed, and the respectful order is notification first, publication second.

The road and the town

State Highway 30 is one of the main north–south routes through this part of New York, running from the Mohawk Valley up through the Adirondacks. Around Amsterdam — a small city on the Mohawk River, wrapped by the surrounding town of the same name — the highway carries a mix of local traffic, commuters heading for the Capital Region, and trucks moving between the valley and the north country. A late-night closure near Miami Avenue would have pushed that traffic onto local roads until deputies reopened the highway.

St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam is the community's hospital and the first destination for serious crash patients from western Montgomery County; patients needing the highest level of trauma care in the region are typically transferred onward to Albany. The sheriff's office said the two surviving patients were being treated there as of early Saturday — it did not release their conditions beyond that.

What happens next

The investigation now sits with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and the reconstruction team. Their findings will decide whether this remains a tragic crash under investigation or becomes a case involving charges, and the sheriff has said the fuller account will come when that work is complete. For drivers, the practical point is the one every late-night fatal crash on a rural state highway underlines: Highway 30's valley stretches are dark, fast and unforgiving of a single mistake.

Awaaz Punjab will update this story when the Sheriff's Office releases the victim's name and the reconstruction findings. Our condolences are with the family of the person who died and with the two people recovering at St. Mary's.