The victim in a fatal crash Saturday has been identified as Katelyn Gress, 28, of Granby. Police are continuing to investigate the motor vehicle collision that occurred around 1:15 a.m. July 1 near the intersection of Pleasant and Barton streets in Granby, when a Jeep Grand Cherokee traveling northbound on Pleasant crossed into the oncoming lane, rolled over and struck a Lexus SUV. Gress, a passenger in the Cherokee was transported by ambulance to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield where she was pronounced dead. The driver, a 30-year-old Granby man, was transported to Baystate Medical Center for treatment of what investigators said were non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the Lexus, a 74-year-old Springfield man, was taken to Holyoke Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The intersection of Pleasant Street and Barton Street was shut down for about eight hours as police investigated and workers attended to damaged telephone poles and downed power lines. Granby Police, State Police Detectives assigned to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, troopers with the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and the Crime Scene Services Section are investigating the crash. No charges have been filed. The crash remains under investigation.