Thanks to a late winter blast, New York State troopers had their hands full along the state Thruway on Tuesday morning.
About 6:30 a.m., troopers responded to a crash on the Exit 52 ramp in the Town of Cheektowaga. A 40-year-old Lancaster man was driving a 2021 Ford pickup that was hauling a travel trailer, heading west on the ramp, when he lost control of his vehicle. The trailer overturned and the truck and trailer both went off the right shoulder of the highway, where they struck a GMC U-haul van parked on the side of the road waiting to be towed due to a separate incident. No injuries were reported.
Then, just after 8 a.m., troopers responded to an overturned utility truck in the median of the thruway in Newstead. A 66-year-old Ontario man was driving the 2010 Freightliner truck east when he lost control, left the roadway and overturned. The driver and a 20-year-old passenger were taken to Erie County Medical Center with minor injuries.
State Police responded to several other weather-related crashes and disabled vehicles along the thruway in Western New York Tuesday morning, but no serious injuries or traffic impacts were reported.