It all depends on who's doing the reporting

It sounds like something out of an old "Dukes of Hazzard" episode. Instead of the Duke boys' Dodge Charger going airborne to evade  a local sheriff, in this instance it was a small Toyota truck going airborne on the Collar City Bridge a little after 6 a.m. Monday and landing below on Hoosick Street with minimal injuries all around.

Apparently local news media didn't quite know what to make of it.

On Monday afternoon, WGY radio reported that a truck had hit a car, then a snowbank on the bridge, became airborne and landed on Hoosick Street below the bridge.

In Tuesday's edition, The Record reported a truck had hit a snowbank and become airborne, resulting in minor injuries to the "Brunswick couple" riding in the vehicle. No mention of another vehicle being involved. The newspaper quoted police Captain Dan DeWolf as saying, "They hit a snowbank on the side of the bridge and it was like a ramp. They went up and over and landed on the roof of the vehicle in another snowbank. They're lucky to be alive."(Underlining is mine, for emphasis.)

Also on Tuesday, the Times Union reported that the truck landed near 5th Avenue, and that the driver suffered only minor bumps in the accident, never mentioning the presence of a passenger in the vehicle. It quoted Captain DeWolf as saying, "He was really lucky. That's kind of a long fall."

To sum up the news coverage, a truck hit a car, or it didn't; it then hit a snowbank and became airborne while carrying a driver and a passenger, or just a driver. Got it?

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