Oneida-based state police investigated a two-car personal injury accident at the intersection of State Route 31 and State Route 46 in the town of Verona at approximately 1:45 p.m. Friday afternoon that sent one driver to a local hospital.
The accident investigation showed that a 2015 Honda operated by Randall J. Butters, 60, of Rome, was eastbound on State Route 31 and attempted to make a left turn onto State Route 46. The Butters vehicle failed to yield the right-of-way to a 2004 Audi traveling westbound on State Route 31 operated by Donald G. Proulx, age 64, of Marcy.
The vehicles collided in the intersection; the impact forced the Honda into a signpost on the northwest shoulder of the road. Proulx was transported by Vineall Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Utica with head pain.
Butters was issued a traffic ticket for failure to yield the right-of-way on a left turn, returnable in Verona Town Court Nov. 14, 2017.
Durhamville Fire Department personnel assisted at the scene.