Moravia, NY – Five teenagers were taken to hospitals, two by helicopter, following a one-car accident Monday night in Moravia, state police said. According to Trooper Jon Austin, a 2006 Chrysler Town and Country minivan carrying a 17-year-old driver and four passengers ages 13, 15, 16 and 17 was heading north about 8 p.m. on Moravia-Venice Town Line Road when...
Moravia, NY – Five teenagers were taken to hospitals, two by helicopter, following a one-car accident Monday night in Moravia, state police said.
According to Trooper Jon Austin, a 2006 Chrysler Town and Country minivan carrying a 17-year-old driver and four passengers ages 13, 15, 16 and 17 was heading north about 8 p.m. on Moravia-Venice Town Line Road when the vehicle went off the right shoulder near Holley Road. The minivan struck a mailbox and two trees before coming to rest in a ditch, Austin said.
Three of the occupants were taken to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, two by helicopter, Austin said. Another occupant was taken to Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, and the fifth to Auburn Memorial Hospital. None of their injuries appear to be life-threatening, he said.
Austin would not identify the victims, citing their ages, but said they were from Groton and Lansing.
The driver told investigators that she had trouble steering the vehicle before the crash, but its steering mechanism appeared OK when it was pulled from the ditch, Austin said.
Troopers are attributing the crash to driver inexperience, he said. Alcohol does not appear to have been a factor, he said.