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General News: Truck Hits Car, Building in Village
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| Interior of Vacek's building was damaged |
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| The column was knocked loose |
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| The parked car crossed Hudson St. and hit pole |
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| The truck as seen from inside after the accident |
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| The truck hit the building's corner |
March 03, 2007
A pickup truck driven by village resident Christopher O’Dell slammed into a car parked outside of 240 Hudson Street in Corrnwall-on-Hudson early Saturday, sending the car across the street and into a sign post. After the initial impact, the truck continued up the steps of the building, knocking over a column on the porch and damaging the exterior siding.
Village police did say that the accident occurred after the driver fell asleep at the wheel.
Dawn Vacek, the owner of the building, got a call shortly after 3:30 a.m. from a tenant who told her that someone had tried to drive through the building.
When she arrived at the accident scene, there were emergency vehicles and a lot of people outside, she said. She saw Christopher O’Dell lying on the street, injured, with a blanket over him. Witnesses at the scene said his injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.
Vacek, who recently renovated the 1905 building as her real estate office, said O’Dell was taken away in an ambulance driven by his father, former town of Cornwall police chief Rusty O’Dell.
Fire department chief Jeff Armitage said that his department responded to the scene where they provided medical treatment and secured both vehicles. O’Dell is the deputy fire chief of the Storm King Fire Engine Company #2.
Armitage said that together with Bob Gilmore, the chief building code enforcer in the village, he ordered residents in the apartments on the second floor of the building to vacate pending an engineer’s inspection.
Vacek said that the engineer found that the force of the truck’s impact moved the front of the building back two-and-a-half inches. On Saturday morning before noon, the damaged column was removed and passersby gathered to reconstruct the accident.
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