Truck Accident Shuts Down New York Thruway
May 13th, 2010 | 
Author: WEEDSPORT, NY – A truck accident shut down a section of the New York State Thruway Wednesday morning, May 5, 2010, in Cayuga County, NY. The rollover collision occurred near Exit 40 on the highway north of the city of Weedsport and blocked eastbound traffic lanes for several hours. The accident area is in the central section of the state between the cities of Rochester and Syracuse, 126 miles east of Buffalo, NY and 165 miles north of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
New York State Police troopers and local emergency personnel responded to the scene.
Shortly before 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, 31 year old Travis Downs of Shelby, Ohio was driving a semi trailer truck east on the New York State Thruway, also know as Interstate 90. The tractor trailer truck is owned by Hall Trucking Express of Findlay, OH and Mr. Downs was hauling a load of aluminum soda can tops.
As the truck driver drove in the vicinity of Exit 40 on the thruway he apparently lost control of his 18 wheeler. According to reports, Mr. Downs told authorities that he had fallen asleep at the wheel just before the truck accident. The semi trailer truck left the roadway and crashed into a concrete barrier at the side of the highway.
The 18 wheeler truck then moved to its left and flipped over onto its side. The semi rig finally came to a rest blocking both eastbound lanes of the thruway between the off ramp for Exit 40 and the on ramp for the thruway.
No other vehicles or persons were involved in the truck accident.
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New York State Police troopers and local emergency personnel responded to the scene of the rollover truck accident. The truck driver was stabilized at the site and then transported to nearby Auburn Memorial Hospital in Auburn, about 9 miles away. According to a hospital supervisor the truck driver suffered minor neck and back injuries that were not life threatening. Mr. Downs was treated and released from the hospital later on Wednesday.
The state police shut down a section of the NYS Thruway surrounding the truck accident site so that the disabled semi truck could be moved from the highway and crews could clear debris off the traffic lanes. Workers had to off-load the cargo of aluminum soda can tops before the 18 wheeler truck could be up-righted.
While the thruway was closed, state troopers rerouted eastbound traffic off the highway onto Route 34 south and then on to eastbound Route 31 to the I-690, detouring vehicles around the truck accident site before allowing them back on the thruway at the I-690 Exit 39 interchange.
The rollover collision had a significant impact on the morning commute, with the clean-up crews and truck accident investigators working for more than five hours. Authorities finally reopened the eastbound lanes of the NYS Thruway shortly after 9:00 a.m. Wednesday morning.
At this point no charges or citations have been made against the truck driver and the accident remains under investigation.
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