Sherburne head on collision leaves van and utility truck totaled
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.
State Troopers at the scene confirmed the men’s interpretation of the incident, saying the driver of the van, Dustin William, 24, of Binghamton came across the yellow divide line and then completely across the opposite lane, apparently in an attempt to avoid the collision, and struck the front of Presnell’s vehicle while both of them were already off the roadway.
Troopers said that William reported he swerved into the oncoming lane because he thought a third vehicle sitting in a driveway was going to pull out in front of him. Troopers said some aspects of the story were in dispute, however, and they could not verify a third vehicle was involved. William was ticketed for failure to keep right.
“I’m just glad everyone is O.K. but it might make our job a little more difficult to do for a while without the truck,” said Presnell. He said he was covered by insurance but wondered it the money would be enough to get another vehicle up and running fast enough not to impact his business.
Both vehicles were removed from the scene using a flat bed tow truck, and initial estimates at the scene claimed the two vehicles were not salvageable.
The Sherburne Fire and Police Department also responded to the scene.
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.
State Troopers at the scene confirmed the men’s interpretation of the incident, saying the driver of the van, Dustin William, 24, of Binghamton came across the yellow divide line and then completely across the opposite lane, apparently in an attempt to avoid the collision, and struck the front of Presnell’s vehicle while both of them were already off the roadway.
Troopers said that William reported he swerved into the oncoming lane because he thought a third vehicle sitting in a driveway was going to pull out in front of him. Troopers said some aspects of the story were in dispute, however, and they could not verify a third vehicle was involved. William was ticketed for failure to keep right.
“I’m just glad everyone is O.K. but it might make our job a little more difficult to do for a while without the truck,” said Presnell. He said he was covered by insurance but wondered it the money would be enough to get another vehicle up and running fast enough not to impact his business.
Both vehicles were removed from the scene using a flat bed tow truck, and initial estimates at the scene claimed the two vehicles were not salvageable.
The Sherburne Fire and Police Department also responded to the scene.
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