After tractor-trailer took down utility pole and trees, Clarendon couple stuck in house
Michelle and Matthew Cryer await cleanup from Monday night crash
Photos courtesy of Michelle Cryer
CLARENDON – A tractor trailer hauling grain crashed in the front of Michelle and Matthew Cryer’s property on Holley-Byron Road on Monday at 9:10 p.m. The truck from Whitetale Trucking in Gasport was hauling grain.
The truck took down trees, a utility pole with a transformer and a fire hydrant, while dumping tons of grain. The driver was able to walk away from the accident.
The Cryers haven’t been able to leave their property since Monday night because wires and pieces of the truck remain in the driveway, along with all the grain.
The driveway and front of the Cryers’ property is filled with grain after the tractor-trailer collided with trees.
National Grid was able to reset a pole and remove its fallen wires on Monday night, but Michelle Cryer said Spectrum and Verizon haven’t taken care of their wires, delaying the removal of the grain and chunks of the truck and trailer.
“We’ve been on the phone with everybody,” Mrs. Cryer said this morning. “The cleanup can’t happen because the wires are in the way.”
This tractor-trailer took down trees and wires after an accident Monday night in Clarendon.
Mrs. Cryer has cancelled doctor’s appointments because she couldn’t leave her property. Her home is set back about 200 yards from Holley-Byron Road (Route 237).
She and her husband felt the house shake with the crash, even though they are set back a distance from the road.
The accident happened on the curve of Holley-Byron Road, between Brown Schoolhouse Road and Glidden Road. Cryer said this is the seventh accident in the past 5 to 6 years.
“Consistently people are crashing on the front of our property,” she said.
The tractor-trailer on Monday was headed north and went off the road at the curve.
Since then the Cryers have been stuck home. They wanted to go out on Tuesday for Mr. Cryer’s birthday.
“We had to stay home but I told him his birthday came in with a bang,” she said.
UPDATE at 11:01 a.m.: Verizon was on site and left just before 11 a.m. after lifting its wires and also for Spectrum to allow for a cleanup of the front of the property.
