Elbridge (WSYR-TV) - Two people are dead as a result of a second serious crash along Route 5 in Elbridge. The crash happened around 2pm in front of the Dollar General along Route 5.
The County Sheriff's Department says that a Casa Imports tractor trailer driven by Kevin Lamay II, 26, of Rome, failed to stop when he approached traffic that was slow moving near the scene of the day's previous accident. Lamay's truck reportedly drove up onto a Kia driven by Ronald Mabb, 68, of Elbridge, which burst into flames and was then pushed it into a pickup truck driven by Michael Lockwood, 31, of Wolcott. Marlene Demay, 76, of Elbridge, was a passenger in the Kia. Both Mabb and Demay were pronounced dead on scene.
The pickup truck was damaged, Lockwood was taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Lockwood's passenger, John Barringer, 33, of West Winfield, was not injured.
The crash took took place just a few hundred yards from the second accident of the day, which took place at the intersection of Sandbank Road and Route 5. Traffic had reportedly accumulated while State Police attempted to clean up after that accident. County Sheriff Kevin Walsh says a tractor trailer then apparently hit the victim's Kia. "Tractor trailer evidently did not observe the fact that the pickup truck and the Kia stopped in the road waiting for traffic to move. He drove right up on the back of the Kia. That car spun around and hit the white pickup truck," he said.
Witness Rich O'Hara blamed the fatal accident on poor supervision by Sheriff's Deputies. "There was no police officers directing traffic to slow down when you're going to have many a people rubber necking going by...it's 55 miles per hour," O'Hara said.
The Sheriff's Department said that, as far as they know, traffic was being handled properly, but that will be a subject of the investigation.
The area was closed to traffic until about 7:50 p.m. while members of the Accident Investigation Team completed their work.
The first crash of the day
occurred in front of Rolling Hills trailer park and sent four people to local hospitals.
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