RODMAN â One person is in the hospital after a two-vehicle crash knocked out power in the town Monday morning.
According to Rodman Fire Chief Josh Main, at about 8 a.m., a box truck was traveling northeast on County Route 69 when it slid on an icy patch of road, through an intersection and hit a garbage truck headed southwest on Route 177. The garbage truck was knocked on its drivers side and slid off the road, knocking out a power pole for National Grid.
The driver of the box truck was taken to Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, with undetermined injuries by the South Jeff Ambulance Squad. The garbage truckâs driver was uninjured.