State police: Driver distracted before fatal crash
BY JOHN ZICK THE LEADER

SAVONA - The driver of a red sedan involved in a fatal collision with a tractor trailer Saturday, Oct. 6, on Interstate Highway 86 was distracted moments before the accident, state police said Monday, Oct. 8.

Inna Grinman, 37, of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, told state police she became distracted while driving but could not say what diverted her attention, Inv. Marci Trimble of the Bath barracks said Monday.

Grinman's eastbound vehicle struck a delineator post on the left shoulder, shot across the eastbound lanes of traffic, then struck the guide

rail.

After hitting the guide rail, the vehicle abruptly turned left, traveled again through the eastbound lanes, through the median into the west - bound lanes, where it was hit head-on by a tractor trailer.

The driver's husband, Dmitri Grinman, 38, was killed in stantly.

Inna Grinman and the couple's two daughters, ages 12 and 6, were injured.

Trimble said Monday the 12-year-old girl may have already been released from the Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira. The mother is scheduled to be discharged soon, Trimble said.

The 6-year-old girl is in critical condition at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

The truck driver was not hurt.

The Grinmans - native Russians from Israel who moved to Canada for employment - were traveling to north east Pennsylvania to visit relatives, Trimble said.

Trimble said the family departed Thornhill, a suburb of Toronto, the morning of the crash. Savona is approximately 250 miles from the family's home.

The 10:30 a.m. accident snarled westbound I-86 traffic for hours.