Route 3 crash near YMCA

Emergency personnel responded at about 5:30 p.m. Monday to a vehicle crash on Route 3 near the YMCA south of Columbia.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department was assisted by Columbia EMS and the Columbia Fire Department. Traffic in the southbound lanes of Route 3 was backed up temporarily as a result of the crash.

Police said a 2009 Pontiac G6 driven by a 17-year-old male was turning left onto southbound Route 3 from EE Road when it collided with a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado driven by a 53-year-old Belleville man that was traveling south on Route 3.

Neither driver required medical transport from the scene.

 

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