July 06, 2008 09:20 pm
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A town of Franklin man died Saturday after a minivan pulled into the path of his motorcycle in Cortland County.
Michael Farone, 47, succumbed to injuries sustained in the 1:30 p.m. crash and his wife, Lynda Bassette, a passenger on the motorcycle, was injured, according to Farone’s family members.
The motorcycle was headed north on state Route 11 when a minivan entered the roadway from East Homer-Baltimore Road in the town of Preble, Cortland County deputies said in a media release issued Saturday.
The operator of the motorcycle and his passenger were taken by TLC Ambulance to University Hospital in Syracuse where the operator was later pronounced dead, deputies said.
Bassette suffered undisclosed injuries in the crash, but she was later listed Sunday night by hospital officials as being discharged.
Farone’s family members said Bassette is expected to recover from her injuries.
Farone worked in the small-engine repair field in Afton and had worked with his father, Don Farone, at Otsego Outfitters in Oneonta.
“He was well-known in the community and we are all going to miss him,” Farone’s brother-in-law, Robert Schorf, said Sunday night.
No arrangements for calling hours or funeral services have yet been made, Schorf said.
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