Dewitt, N.Y : 2 hospitalized after 2-vehicle crash on Route 5 in DeWitt on Monday morning, February 27, 2017

Two people were taken to a local hospital after their vehicles crashed along Route 5 in DeWitt Monday morning, according to the DeWitt Police Department.

A 67-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man were hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Members of the DeWitt Police Department, the DeWitt Fire Department, and ambulance services responded to Route 5/East Genesee Street at 8:56 a.m. for a reported vehicle crash near Wegmans, according to 911 dispatch records.

About six fire trucks, three ambulances and several police vehicles were seen responding, a witness told syracuse.com.

Two vehicles had gotten into a collision and came to rest in the eastbound lanes, according to police and a witness. It is still unclear which direction they were originally driving or how the crash happened.

Both vehicles -- a Cooney Air Conditioning & Heating business van and an SUV -- sustained heavy front-end damage, the witness said.

The injured man and woman were the drivers of the two vehicles, police said. They were the only ones in the vehicles during the crash, they said.

The investigation is ongoing, and no one has been given any tickets for the crash yet, according to officials.

Lanes were reduced in both directions while authorities worked to clear the crash, causing traffic delays from the Route 5/Route 92 fork to the ramps for Interstate 481 toward Syracuse, according to 511NY data.

All lanes of the highway have reopened, police said. Traffic returned to normal around 11:30 a.m., more than two hours after the crash, according to 511NY data.

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2 hospitalized after 2-vehicle crash on Route 5 in DeWitt; lanes reopen