SHERBURNE – A Sherburne man and his associate where traveling to work Thursday morning when suddenly a van driven by a Binghamton man swerved across the yellow line and into their path.

Driver James Presnell, 62, and his employee Kim Slater, 51, both from Sherburne were traveling to Shawler Brook Rd. in their company pacing vehicle, a 1996 F-350, used to follow oversized loads moving along the highway. Presnell is the owner of the trailer moving company J&C Mobile Home Moving and was on his way to do an assessment at a local residence.

At around 10 a.m., the men said, while they were heading North on State Highway 12 less then a quarter mile from the Rt. 12 B divide, a green 2000 Ford van heading south on the highway failed to negotiate a curve and came across the yellow line.

Following the accident no one was seriously injured, but Slater, the passenger, recalled the moments before the collision as blood still seeped from a wound above his left eye.

“It was fast. What we tried to do was swerve out of the way,” he explained pointing to torn earth leading off the right side of the roadway and into a ditch.

“He followed us all the way across the road here, and I tried to get out of his way by going completely off the roadway, but he followed us all the way across the road and into the ditch,” said the operator of the truck, Presnell.