Tractor-trailer crashes into house killing driver, Stephentown NY


A tractor-trailer crashed through a house on Route 2 near Burns Rd, killing the driver and causing major damage. Emergency teams blocked the road for many hours during rescue and cleanup efforts.
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The tractor-trailer went through a house, that was Route 2 and Burns went there.
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Between farm and the market road and someplace else and wrecked the house.
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I don't know, some feet off the foundation.
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Locking over in a house, but the driver didn't survive.
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Yes, I know.
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I drove past that, or I went past the blockage.
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They got a lot of ambulances and fire trucks and they got all the Route 2 blocked off.
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You can't go up in the Grafton on Route 2.
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That's all blocked off because of that.
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Yeah, it's not too far away from 351 from the market road there.
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So, yeah, lots of activity over there.
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Thank you. Yeah, the guy in there.
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We're hoping to be open, you know, later tonight or early in the morning.
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But the boy did an awful day, which the driver got killed.
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And I guess they just got him out like an hour ago.
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It took nine, nine or ten hours to shore things up.
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You know,
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went right into the house.
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It wasn't a dump truck, but it looked like a long truck.
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like a gravel truck or something like that.
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Yeah, I was so I was so mad.
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I was talking to Steve and she said, you know, come and watch that in and, of course, oh, it was only a teaser and stuff like that, so yeah, too bad there.
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Location mentioned:
Near Burns Rd, Stephentown, NY 12168
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