Driving in the winter can be incredibly difficult. Falling snow blinds you and ice can cause you to spin out at any moment.
As a newer addition to the north, I tend to take things slow on the road, but one man in Troy didn’t take that advice, and caused himself a heap of trouble.
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The Crash
On the night of Friday, December 5th, a driver was headed south down Pawling Avenue in Troy. He was exceeding the speed limit, and attempted to change lanes, but as you probably know, that’s not a very safe maneuver.
At 9:23 p.m., while attempting to change lanes, the driver crashed, rolled, and went straight into a home on the corner of Pawling Avenue and Linden Avenue. The car went face-first into the home’s front porch, totaling both the car and the home.
The Aftermath
Miraculously, everyone survived this ordeal. The homeowners were a little rattled, but otherwise okay. The driver, however, was identified as Tyler Koumjian, who was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries…