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Fatal crash at Sennett ,NY intersection the second in two months
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Friday, October 9, 2009 5:12 PM EDT
Police say a motorist was killed Friday in a collision between a car a tanker truck at the intersection of Turnpike Road and North Street Road in Sennett, just north of the city of Auburn.
The Cayuga County Sheriff's Office said that the truck, from Alnye Trucking of Moravia, was traveling south on Route 34 at about 2 p.m. Friday when a 1993 Mercury Sable that had been heading east pulled into the path of the truck from Turnpike Road.
Both vehicles ended up in a ditch on the east side of Route 34, and the truck toppled onto its side.
Police said that the truck was carrying home-heating fuel, but that none of the fuel spilled. A second Alnye truck was sent to the accident scene so that the fuel could be removed from the overturned truck before it could be uprighted.
The truck driver, *********, of Moravia, was not injured, police said. The name of the driver of the car was being withheld Friday afternoon because the person's family had not yet been notified, police said.
Route 34, also North Street Road in that area, was closed to all traffic between Turnpike Road and Potter Road for several hours after the accident.
The circumstances of the crash appear to be nearly identical to an accident in August that claimed the lives of two elderly Syracuse women.
On Aug. 16, a car traveling on Turnpike Road crossed into the path of a northbound tractor trailer at the same intersection. The truck driver was unable to stop and hit the car broadside. The truck left about 40 feet of skid marks before coming to rest with the smashed car still against its bumper.
In an effort to increase safety there, the state Department of Transportation reconstructed the intersection in 2001 so that the roads now meet at a 90-degree angle. The intersection is also several hundred feet further south than it once was because it had been closer to a hill that interfered with drivers' line of sight.
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Sounds like an intersection where Im from. A person can see for two miles in both directions and yet some how there seems to be accidents all the time.
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10.09.2009
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