Corn Spill Closes Routes 5 & 20

Cars drive on a Finger Lakes road covered in spilled corn kernels after a truck accident.
Vehicles navigate Routes 5 & 20 in the Finger Lakes region after a truck accident spilled corn kernels across the roadway.

A stretch of Routes 5 and 20 in Aurelius was blocked off for about 5 hours Saturday due to a massive corn spill.

Cayuga County 911 dispatchers say that a call came in around just after 3 about a truck spilling the corn between Laraway and Blanchard roads.

The New York State Department of Transportation cleaned up the spill.

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