GENESEO – As always, the Geneseo lady knights persevered with heart and grit as they hosted their first game since the sudden loss of firstyear teammate Savannah Williams, 18. As the entire community is pained to remember, the loss of Williams in a December car accident was the second time that the team has lost one of its members in 2016. Senior guard and captain Kelsey Annese died last January in the well-publicized tragedy at 18 Wadsworth … [Read more...]
Geneseo has History of ‘Death-Trap’ Intersections
GENESEO — An eyewitness to Tuesday's tragic accident said that they hear accidents on a regular basis and people in her office have been concerned for years that someone was going to be killed there. SUNY Geneseo student and basketball player Savannah Williams, 18, was killed in Tuesday's accident when she pulled into oncoming traffic and was immediately struck by a tractor trailer. According to Livingston County Sheriff Thomas Dougherty, … [Read more...]
Victim of Fatal Geneseo Accident Identified as Savannah Williams
GENESEO – The SUNY Geneseo freshman who lost her life in a collision with a tractor trailer on Tuesday is identified as Savannah Williams, 18. According to a press release from Livingston County Sheriff Thomas Dougherty, the preliminary investigation indicates that Williams pulled out of Court Street and into the path of the northbound tractor tailer which was driven by Robert Wilkinson, 24. Wilkinson was not injured but badly shaken by the … [Read more...]