SULLIVAN, NEW YORK — A Little Falls truck driver struck a state trooper’s patrol vehicle on the New York State Thruway Wednesday afternoon and kept driving for approximately 20 miles. Troopers tracked him down and stopped him.
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The incident unfolded at approximately 1 p.m. on March 25 near mile marker 273 in the town of Sullivan, Madison County. A trooper from the Syracuse Barracks had pulled his vehicle into the right lane — emergency lights flashing — to remove an obstruction from the roadway. Seth J. Horender, 55, of Little Falls, came up behind the patrol vehicle in a 2022 Peterbilt with a dump trailer. He tried to squeeze past by pulling onto the right shoulder illegally. The trooper saw him coming and jumped to the median to avoid getting hit. Horender’s truck clipped the patrol vehicle and kept rolling eastbound. Troopers caught up with him roughly 20 miles down the road.
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Longhorn Trucking Company of Fort Plain owned the tractor-trailer. The Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit towed it to the Thruway Verona tandem lot for inspection. Inspectors found damage to the left trailer wheels and rims. A tow truck hauled the patrol vehicle off the scene.
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Troopers ran field sobriety tests on Horender. He showed no signs of impairment. Even so, troopers hit him with multiple vehicle and traffic violations, including failure to avoid colliding with an emergency vehicle under the Move Over Law. They also cited him for running an overweight vehicle.
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Horender faces Sullivan Town Court next month.
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