Midnight car fire off Waldron Terrace in Sloatsburg kills a man, is under investigation

Posted on 21 June 2016 by Editor

The Sloatsburg Volunteer Ambulance Corps arrived Tuesday morning to the scene on Waldron Terrace in Sloatsburg, where a dead body was found by a burned out car in the early morning hours.

The Sloatsburg Volunteer Ambulance Corps arrived Tuesday morning to the scene on Waldron Terrace in Sloatsburg, where near midnight the Sloatsburg Fire Department discovered a burned man (who died at the scene) by a car on fire.

The Town of Ramapo Police have called the midnight car fire at the end of Waldron Terrace in Sloatsburg “definitely suspicious.”

Matt Spillane and Steve Lieberman covered the incident for The Journal News and were at the scene Tuesday morning when the Sloatsburg Volunteer Ambulance Corps arrived to claim the body of a deceased man. According to police, the Sloatsburg Volunteer Fire Department called in the incident at 12:20 a.m. Tuesday morning, June 21.

Ossen Lavaud, a 48-year-old Middletown man was found dead Tuesday morning outside a burning car along a dirt road in the Village of Sloatsburg.

Ramapo Police Brad Weidel said investigators were trying to figure out whether any hazardous materials were in the car, how it caught fire, and how Lavaud got out of it.  

  — According to Lohud reporters Matt Spillane and Steve Lieberman

According to the Lohud report, “first responders arrived and found a four-door sedan on fire, with a man burned outside the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene.”

Ramapo police Chief Brad Weidel said: “We have a death with a burned body. We have a burned vehicle. We don’t know how all that came about.”

Waldron Terrace is a neighborhood unto itself in Sloatsburg, bordered on one side by the NYS Thruway and the other by the Ramapo River. The incident took place in a wooded property at the end of Waldron near the service road that leads to the NYS Thruway.

According to the Lohud report, police have made a preliminary identification of the body but the exact cause of death is being investigated by the Rockland County Medical Examiner’s office.

 

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