DOT Truck Rear-ended in Andes, NY By Distracted Driver
New York State Police at Margaretville and Andes EMS on Tuesday were called to the scene of an accident on State Route 28 in Andes that involved a Department of Transportation truck.
According to a NYS Police report, around 2:00 pm that afternoon, four DOT workers were in a truck gathering up cones and signs from a work zone area. As the DOT truck in the road to let two workers out of the truck to pick up one of the work zone signs, a vehicle with a 43-year-old male driver who was not paying attention, rear-ended the DOT truck which had two workers inside. The two workers outside the DOT truck jumped over a guardrail to avoid getting hit and both sustained minor injuries: one had a knee injury, while the other had a lacerated arm. The worker with the injured arm was transported by ambulance to O'Connor Hospital in Delhi.
The 53-year-old male driver of the DOT truck sustained a shoulder injury, while his passenger was uninjured. The DOT worker with the lacerated arm was the only one who was taken to the hospital.
Police investigators say that the driver who rear-ended the truck was not impaired.
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