Ogden, NY — March 21, 2025, a man sustained injuries due to a semi-truck accident at around 4:30 a.m. along Buffalo Road.

According to initial details about the accident, it happened at the intersection of Buffalo Road and Westside Drive.

Monroe County Sheriff's Office investigators said that a 64-year-old man was in a vehicle going along Buffalo Road. Up ahead, authorities say a truck was backing into a property off-road. As it did so, the man's vehicle crashed with the semi-truck.

Due to the collision, the man reportedly suffered an arm injury. There were no other reported injuries. Right now, additional details are unavailable.

Commentary

There aren't many specifics about this crash available right now, so I'm certainly not here to speculate while investigations are still ongoing. That said, I hope authorities are including in their investigations what measures the truck driver here was taking while backing off the roadway.

Simply put, it's dangerous to have a large commercial vehicle blocking lanes of travel for that period of time. Most responsible employers make sure drivers have a co-worker or someone at the destination who can be outside the truck with high visibility equipment warning motorists of the obstruction. Other companies can't be bothered to make sure their drivers are being safe, and that inevitably leads to people getting hurt. S

o, are authorities looking into whether or not this truck was clearly visible and avoidable leading up to the collision? If not, they could be missing crucial context to this story.