WASHINGTONVILLE, NY : Montour County crash sends three people to hospital on Route 54 at Gardner Road in Anthony Township on Friday, 31st August 2018
Washingtonville, New York
Two drivers were taken to a hospital following a three-vehicle crash at about 11:15 a.m. Friday on Route 54 at Gardner Road in Anthony Township.
Danville ambulances transported drivers of a gray Suzuki and a gray pickup truck and a juvenile passenger in the car to Geisinger.
Gary Roberts, Washingtonville Fire Company chief, said the injuries didn't appear to be serious.
The third driver — Jim Smith, 76, of Richland, had a bandaged hand, but didn't go to the hospital. He said he was headed toward Turbotville when the car struck his white van head-on.
"That man is the luckiest man alive," he said. He said the man fell asleep and his car came across the two-lane highway. Smith said the man driving the car went to the hospital to get checked.
Smith said the pickup truck was following him.
Smith's 1997 Ford Econoline landed in one lane in front of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. The car and truck were some distance away and up an embankment next to a corn field.
Police identified the driver of the 2008 Suzuki SV4 as Logan J. Cook, 21, of Selinsgrove. He had a suspected minor injury. There was a 1-year-old boy passenger who, police said, wasn't hurt.
Driving the truck was Hendrick E. Williams, 62, of Dunkirk, N.Y., with a suspected minor injury.
Tpr. Aaron Messner said Cook was traveling east when he crossed into the westbound lane and struck the Smith vehicle. The Cook car then continued west and hit the pickup truck.
Police said Cook wasn't wearing a safety belt and was taken to Geisinger for lacerations to his head. Williams wasn't wearing a safety belt and was taken to the hospital for a neck injury. Smith was wearing a safety belt.
Messner cited Cook for careless driving.
Both lanes were blocked with one lane reopened at noon. Besides the Washingtonville Fire Company, the Valley Fire Company responded along with Washingtonville fire police who directed traffic detoured around the accident.
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