Basic Facts
Crash date: March 5, 2026
Crash location: The New York Thruway (Interstate Highway 90) near Mile Marker 243 in Westmoreland, NY
People involved:
- Robert Wells, 76
- Ahmad Riyad Alomori, 42
Do Authorities suspect alcohol played a role in this crash? unknown
Did authorities recommend criminal charges? unknown
Do authorities suspect a product defect caused the crash? unknown
Accident Report
March 5, 2026, Roberty was killed and Ahmad Alomori was injured due to a two-truck accident at about 1:30 a.m. along the New York Thruway (I-90).
According to authorities, 42-year-old Ahmad Riyad Alomori was traveling in a westbound 18-wheeler with an empty car hauler in tow on the New York Thruway (I-90) near Westmoreland when the accident took place. Officials indicate that, for as yet unknown reasons, a collision occurred between the rear-end of the car hauler and the front-end of a second 18-wheeler.
The second truck driver, 76-year-old Robert Wells, was pronounced dead at the scene. Ahmad Alomori suffered non-life-threatening injuries, as well, according to reports; he was transported to an area medical facility by EMS in order to receive necessary treatment.
Additional details pertaining to this incident are not available at this point in time. The investigation is currently ongoing.
How Did This Accident Occur?
I’ve been analyzing truck accidents long enough to know that they are never simple. Are investigators taking into account that underlying factors—like mechanical malfunction or product defect—could have had a role in the wreck? What if the rear-ending truck’s brakes failed or it had a throttle malfunction, making it difficult or impossible for it to avoid a collision?
On another note, the accident took place in the dark hours of night. Is it not also possible that the lights on the empty car-hauler were not working properly? Or maybe the reflectors on the hauler were dirty, rendering them ineffective? Let me know in a comment if—were you hypothetically a victim in a crash like this one—you would want to understand all the factors that played a part.
What does it take to unearth these less likely factors? An in-depth vehicle inspection. Unfortunately, these types of inspections are not done routinely in most investigations. It might take a special request—or even a third party investigation—and a fair amount of persistence to make sure that it gets done. But the answers provided in such inspections are worth the time and effort, especially for the ones most affected by the accident, itself.
Not only that, if the inspection does bring underlying factors to light, then the companies with which the trucks are affiliated could bear a piece of the responsibility for its outcome; if corners were cut and regular maintenance and inspections were skipped, then issues were not caught beforehand that could have been. Everyone with a hand in the wreck should be held accountable, whether they were physically at the scene of the accident or not.
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