A SUNY Oswego geology professor was one of two pedestrians killed in the horrific limousine crash in upstate New York, his family said Monday. Assistant…
A SUNY Oswego geology professor was one of two pedestrians killed in the horrific limousine crash in upstate New York, his family said Monday.
Assistant Professor Brian Hough had been with a relative, who also was killed, said Katie Kent, who identified herself as family, on Facebook .
“We are absolutely devastated at the incomprehensible loss of my nephew” and other relative, Kent wrote. “My nephew was an accomplished professor, an amazing husband, and daddy. Our family is trying to make sense of this. Prayers or well wishes please for my brother and sister-in-law, and Brian’s brother, JT.”
A spokesman for SUNY confirmed Hough’s passing to Syracuse.com, as did a man identified as a Hough family rep to The Sentinel newspaper of Carlisle, Pa., near where the victim went to high school.
Hough was a visiting professor at Oswego teaching oceanography, paleontology, historical geology and stratigraphy, according to the school’s website.
“In a short time, Brian became a major part of our campus family,” SUNY Oswego president Deborah Stanley told the site. “He was a dedicated faculty member who inspired his students to learn and understand at a deeper level, and whose contributions were often sought by his colleagues. He will be deeply missed and remembered fondly by all, always.”
The accident has been called the nation’s worst transportation disaster in a decade.
All 17 passengers and the limo driver, Scott Lisinicchia — who were headed to a brewery in Cooperstown for a birthday bash — were killed when the vehicle slammed into a drainage ditch. The two dead pedestrians raised the death toll to 20.
