A two-car collision with injuries is reported at South Lake Road and Cohocton Road. There is possible entrapment in one vehicle. Mercy Flight #5 is put on standby. Pembroke and Indian Falls fire departments along with Mercy EMS are dispatched. Akron fire is responding to the scene since their extrication tools may be needed.
UPDATE 1:31 p.m.: A responder at the scene says everyone is out of the vehicles. Akron's response and Mercy Flight are cancelled.
UPDATE 1:34 p.m.: Pembroke command requests a second ambulance (which will be provided by Darien). One car rolled over into a ditch. There are two people injured.
UPDATE 1:59 p.m.: One patient is being transported to UMMC and another is being taken to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville.
UPDATE 2:20 p.m.: The Pembroke and Indian Falls assignment is back in service.
One of the worst
One of the worst intersections I've ever been through!
Lived at the corner of Cohocton and Rt. 77 for a decade.
I pulled at least a half-dozen accident victims from wrecked auto's at 77 and Cohocton. About half of them didn't survive...
BUT, follow Cohocton for a couple of miles to the West, and you run into Lake...
The drivers on Lake are advised to reduce speed to 45 about a quarter-mile before the intersection with Cohocton. (Both North and South-bound) One Stop sign either way on Cohocton.
If somebody isn't paying attention, the results will be disastrous. My son and a buddy of his went through there after a brain-fart, where my son forgot to stop about 9 years ago... He saw the "flash of a car going by less than a foot away from my bumper". I can assure all of you that it is only a matter of time before there is an M.V.A. at that intersection, including the "loss-of-life of an entire family"... More than half of the vehicles going through there are semi's loaded with stone and asphalt from the quarry.
Too many people don't slow down on Lake Road through there, and I can say that at 60 MPH, there isn't room to stop if there is a truck trying to get moving with 30 tons of gravel... It's also a property of physics that says that the mini-van with seven people in it isn't going to fare well against all those tons of stone at about neck level...
Just wait... Unless someone makes that a four-way stop with lights, there will be an MVA with a LOT of dead kids...