21-year-old woman dies in two-car accident

Arianna Marika Williams had moved recently from Stone Ridge to Round Top, in the town of Cairo.

ROUND TOP, N.Y. >> A woman who recently moved from Stone Ridge to Greene County was killed in a twocar collision near her home on Heart’s Content Road in the Cairo hamlet of Round Top, state police said Thursday. Arianna Marika Williams, 21, of 1430 Heart’s Content Road, was leaving for work at 2:43 p.m. Tuesday when she drove her 2016 Jetta into the path of a 2004 Chevrolet pickup driven by Kevin Valentine, 23, of Round Top, state police Senior Investigator Peter Kusminsky said.

Valentine, who was on his way home from work, was not injured, Kusminsky said. He said there were no passengers in either vehicle, both of which were totaled. Valentine was not charged. Williams was declared dead at the scene, and an

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autopsy performed Wednesday at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany determined the cause of death to be “severe internal injuries from the collision,” Kusminsky said.

He said a wet road due to Tuesday’s rain might have been a contributing factor.

Kusminsky said investigators do not believe speeding, drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash.

An obituary for Williams submitted to the Freeman said she was a 2013 graduate of Rondout Valley High School and a licensed cosmetologist with a certificate from Ulster County BOCES. She also was an Ulster Community College graduate, according to the obituary.

Williams is survived by her parents, Mark and Andrea Williams of Stone Ridge.