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Yet ANOTHER car ends up in the Erie Canal, a total of FOUR in
2021, what's up?
DIR By: Doug K
Date: October 16, 2021, 11:24 am
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Lots of activity in Brockport in the wee hours of a rainy
night. A car reportedly went into the Erie Canal in Brockport,
at the north end of Owens Rd and E. Canal Rd. It's a very well
lit intersection, with all roads having to stop, so how a car
managed to run off the road, some 80 feet into the canal, is a
mystery.
A Brockport neighbor reported that all car inhabitants all got
out safely when it happened, he was awoken by the noise of the
crash.
And here's a video of the scene from this morning as the teams
assembled along the Erie Canal in Brockport.
HTML https://youtu.be/JKFTOLg5hxA
The NYS DEC Spill response team was here, along with the Scuba
Team from the Monroe County Sheriff's Dept.
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The divers went in to locate the vehicle and mark it with a
rope, and then the winch was moved into place to extract the car
from the canal.
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Shot this video of the submerged car coming up out of the Erie
Canal water after about an hour or so of prep work.
HTML https://youtu.be/-J2TVBO0C2w
And now this most recent incident brings the count to FOUR cars
in the Erie Canal this year... well to be fair, the DRIVERS of
the car are the ones who put them there.
Here's the news stories on the other 3
HTML https://www.wivb.com/news/stolen-vehicle-driven-into-erie-canal-in-monroe-county-suspect-hospitalized/
HTML https://www.wktv.com/content/news/Officials-Vehicle-ends-up-in-the-water-at-Lock-21-occupants-safe-575099401.html
HTML https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2399548208090/woman-drives-car-into-the-erie-canal-in-palmyra-sunday-night
And here's a another from 2019 where the driver wasn't so
fortunate...
HTML https://buffalonews.com/news/local/police-id-dead-man-found-in-stolen-car-in-erie-canal/article_7cc31a1e-581e-5b61-ae6b-d5266a812cf0.html
So what's going on here with this recent rash of local DRIVERS
and these Erie Canal Collisions?
Could it be something in the water, or is it just careless
driving? Surely there is an opportunity for "yet to be created"
solution here...
Perhaps the NYS Canal Corporation should start to consider
emptying water out of the channel and replacing it with sponge
foam, like a huge cushion top mattress.
Or maybe it could be filled with those small colorful plastic
balls like we see at Chuckie Cheese, that would make it easier
to find wayward drivers and their cars.
And for those in the local area, thinking that maybe more
"trees" might have helped prevent these cars from going into the
canal; if trees had been here, in this instance (and any other),
it's more likely that the car inhabitants would have been
seriously injured or lost their lives on IMPACT with all that
woody vegetation, including tree trunks..
They would not have had a "narrow escape" after running into
anything on their way to the water...tree, wall,
railing...anything hard and immovable.
But that takes some amount of common sense to understand
Anyways, thanks to all of the First Responders who once again
had to answer the call, and lend a hand cleaning up the mess.
Monroe County Sheriffs, local; Brockport Police, and those two
brave scuba divers who battled the rain and cold to locate the
car as the bottom of the Erie in Brockport this morning
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