Updated 11:40 AM
Car off the road on McDonald Road, Onondaga
/ Jason HY/WSTM
SYRACUSE -- A morning snow squall at the peak of rush hour made for slow travel and a number of accidents in the Syracuse area.
The Onondaga County 911 center reports more than 60 calls for either disabled vehicles or accidents since about 6:30 this morning. We have no reports of serious injuries.
One of the accidents, at East Colvin Street and Lorraine Avenue in Syracuse, involved a Syracuse city school bus and a car. No reports of injuries there. We are told that the bus was struck by a car as it tried to avoid another accident up ahead. The 17 students on board were on their way to the McKinley Brighton Magnet School.
The Liverpool School District tells us that the poor road conditions and accidents caused a number of the district's bus runs to be late. The district says none of its buses were involved, but many students got to class late.
Another incident took place on McDonald Road near Velasko Road in the Town of Onondaga. Three cars slid off the road in separate incidents very close to one another because of slippery conditions. No serious injuries were reported.
We've been listening to the dispatches over police and fire scanners and the words we hear often are advisories for emergency responders to use caution because the roads are very slippery. Most of the accidents are on suburban and city streets, not the main interstates.
CNYcentral Meteorologist Peter Hall says; "A small, but potent area of squally-type snow passed over our area right during the middle of the rush hour. An upper level system combined with some Lake Erie moisture produced a small but notable area of steadier snow across the immediate central New York area. This localized burst of snow passed right over the greater Syracuse area and its suburbs plus over the the Thruway corridor during the morning rush. The combination of poor visibility and the fast accumulation caused roads to become snow covered and icy quickly."
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