Two women were hospitalized with serious injuries following a two-car collision on Rt. 17 near the entrance to Peaslee’s Quick Stop in Jefferson Aug. 28 around 8:30 p.m.
Little is known about the circumstances of the crash at this time. The names of the occupants of the vehicles are also unknown.
However, Jefferson Fire Chief Walter Morris said a station wagon traveling on Rt. 17 hit the passenger side of a sedan. The driver was the only passenger in the station wagon; a “young man” was driving the sedan with two female passengers, Morris said.
Neither driver sustained serious injuries, Morris said. The woman in the back seat of the sedan was hospitalized with a broken hip; the woman in the front seat was extricated from the vehicle and hospitalized with what Morris described as “severe injuries.”
The women’s current condition is not known.
“This was one of the most serious accidents we’ve had in town in a while,” Morris said. It was the also the department’s first accident requiring the use of their new extrication equipment, which they purchased last year, and “performed perfectly,” Morris said.
Emergency crews cleared the scene at around 9:30 p.m., Morris said.
