WCDO Radio News

State Police arrested 36 year old Jeremy Austin of Binghamton for vehicular assault, operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, reckless endangerment & criminal possession of a controlled substance, after troopers responded to a report of an accident involving two tractor trailers on Interstate 81 in the Town of Marathon. Austin drove a tractor trailer off the roadway through a large median he crashed into a tractor trailer. The driver of the tractor trailer that he struck was transported to Wilson Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Austin was found to unlawfully possess about a gram of crystal methamphetamine, He was remanded to the Cortland County jail on bail, and I-81 was shut down for approximately 4 hours.