GUILDERLAND >> A Coxsackie man was charged Tuesday with multiple felonies and drunken driving in connection with the Fourth of July accident on the Thruway that killed a Greene County man and a Dutchess County woman, according to state police.
Tyler S. Pascuzzi, 24, was charged with the felonies of aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular manslaughter and manslaughter and the misdemeanors of drunken driving and reckless driving, police said.
Just before midnight Friday, Pascuzzi was driving a 2004 Volkswagen GLI at a high rate of speed in the center westbound lane of I-90 near Albany when he struck a 2003 Honda Civic driven by Brian T. Miller, 29, of Schenectady, police said.
The Volkswagen, which had two passengers, began to spin and continued west, striking an Old Dominion Freight Lines tractor-trailer and breaking into two pieces, police said.
Pascuzzi’s passengers – Cody J. Veverka, 23, of South Cairo, and Alicia M. Tamboia, 24, of Wingdale – were thrown from the Volkswagen and pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said Pascuzzi was taken to Albany Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, as was Miller, whose car struck the center guard rail after being hit.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured.
A sedan traveling west behind the accident struck parts of the Volkswagen. The car’s driver, who was not identified, was uninjured, police said.
Pascuzzi was arraigned in Guilderland Town Court after his release from the hospital and sent to the Albany County Jail.