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Fatal crash in Sparta

Staff report

SPARTA – A 56-year-old woman was killed Thursday morning in a head-on collision with a dump truck.

Police were called at 9:56 a.m. about a serious head-on motor vehicle accident on Route 517 between West Mountain Road and the Sparta Middle School, police said.

Donna L. Golian, of Stockholm, was traveling north in a 2000 Cadillac on Route 517 when her vehicle crossed the double yellow lines and entered the southbound lane for an unknown reason, police said.

Golian’s vehicle struck a 1997 Dodge Ram mason dump truck operated by Rodrigo Montes, 49, of Madison, police said.

Golian was pronounced dead at the scene while Montes was transported to Newton Medical Center with a leg injury, police said. He was treated at the medical center and later released, a hospital spokesman said.

The accident is being investigated by Detective Jeff McCarrick with assistance from Cpl. Frank Schomp and Detective Joe Antonello.

The Sparta Fire Department, the Sparta First Aid Squad and the Sussex County Prosecutors Office assisted at the scene.