SHERBURNE – Sherburne teen fights for her life after sustaining serious injuries from a traumatic two-vehicle car crash; her family asks for community support while she remains in critical condition.

On Friday, Jan. 16 at approximately 1:35 p.m., NYSP troopers responded to the accident on state Route 12 near Willey Road in the Town of Hamilton. Upon investigation, troopers learned that Daneil M. Miner, 18 of Sherburne was driving northbound on Route 12 and had passed Willey Road, when her vehicle slid counterclockwise on the snow covered roadway in the path of a 2004 Ford 150 pickup truck traveling southbound.

Charlie A. Anderson of Sherburne, who was driving the pickup, collided with the passenger side of Miner's Hyundai, forcing her vehicle off the west side of the road. Anderson was uninjured, but Miner had to be extricated from her vehicle by Hubbardsville firefighters and transported to Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Utica for her serious head and internal traumatic injuries.

According to her family, Miner is in critical condition and is on a ventilator. She has undergone surgery and needs additional surgery for abdominal injuries, but doctors are waiting for the swelling in her brain to subside. Miner has multiple injuries including brain trauma, fractured vertebrae, a large hole in her diaphragm and a ruptured spleen, which are the worst of many.

Doctors are hopeful, because she is responding to pain, but her condition remains critical, said one of Miner's 10 siblings.