and JOE LoTEMPLIO

PLATTSBURGH -- Two people died in car accidents during the mid-April storm that hit the North Country with a mix of heavy snow, rain and sleet.

Near Keeseville, a young mother was killed and her baby seriously injured in a crash on the Northway Sunday night.

In Chazy, a Quebec woman died when she was thrown from the van she was riding in as it flipped over on the Northway.

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State Police in Plattsburgh said 27-year-old Sara Rosen of Maryland was in a rear passenger seat of a 2007 Toyota minivan driven by her husband, Dovid Rosen, when it skidded off the southbound lane of Interstate 87 near exit 34 and hit a tree.

The accident happened at about 5:15 p.m. in the Town of AuSable.

Two-month-old Malkah Rosen sustained severe head injuries in the crash, according to police.

She was brought to CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh and then transferred to Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington.

Mrs. Rosen had temporarily unbuckled herself and the baby, State Police said.

The mother was breast-feeding the child, according to emergency officials.

The accident was blamed on speed unsafe for conditions, police said, but no tickets were issued.

Members of the AuSable Forks Ambulance squad sent two ambulances, and another one came from Peru Ambulance Service, said Keeseville Emergency Medical Technician Deb Winter, who attended to the infant.

The side door of the van was open when emergency personnel arrived.

"We believe the mother was partially ejected," Winter said.