A Savannah woman was killed in a car accident in the town of Montezuma on Sunday. Alicia R. Farr, 50, died when her car struck a tree on Fuller Road, near Carner Road, at about 10 that night.
Cayuga County 911 dispatchers told The Citizen she was trapped in the vehicle and it took responders about 70 minutes to extricate her. In a Facebook post, the Throop Fire Department said multiple Jaws of Life tools were used to free her. New York State Police, the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office, the Cayuga County Office of Emergency Services, Aurelius and Montezuma fire departments and Auburn and Throop ambulances also responded.
After she was removed from the car, Farr was airlifted to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse via LifeNet helicopter. She was pronounced dead at the hospital at about 1 a.m.
Monday. Farr's daughter, Erica Helmick, created a GoFundMe on Tuesday to help her family cover funeral and other expenses. Farr is survived by four children and six grandchildren.
"Anyone who knows my mom knows she was an amazing women and she loved hard and she loved her kids and grandchildren so much," Helmick said on the GoFundMe page. "These past few days have been a nightmare for my siblings and I, we were (too) young to lose our beautiful mother so unexpectedly and any donations little or small would help out tremendously." As of Wednesday night, about $1,200 of the GoFundMe's goal of $5,000 goal has been raised.
To contribute to the GoFundMe, visit gofundme.com/f/support-alicia-farrs-funeral-expenses . Staff writer Kelly Rocheleau can be reached at (315) 282-2243 or kelly.
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