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NY Flags at Half-Staff for NY Trooper

Updated Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Written By: Laura Caso

Update: 5/30: ALBANY (WENY)--- In just two days, friends, family and even strangers will say their final goodbyes to a New York State Trooper who died in a crash over the weekend.

Flags will be flown at half-staff on government buildings in New York on Friday to honor a state trooper who died in car crash while on duty.

As we've been reporting, Trooper Amanda Anna died from severe head injuries after her patrol car overturned on a storm-slicked road Friday night north of Syracuse.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Friday, the day of the 31-year-old trooper's funeral.

HASTINGS (WENY)---State police say Trooper Amanda Anna who died Saturday after a car crash north of Syracuse turned around right before the crash, possibly to stop a vehicle.

Oswego New York State Trooper Anna died at a hospital from severe head injuries after the accident in Hastings.

Her patrol car overturned on a storm-slicked road just before 11:30 Friday night.

She had been heading west but a tracking system showed she turned to the east just before the crash.

The 31-year-old was a six-year veteran and mother of a 4-year-old son.