VIDEO: Runaway garbage truck plows through cars
NEW BRIGHTON, Pennsylvania (WTVD) -- Lisa Ferguson put cameras on her house to catch vandals; but instead, she got a crystal clear look at the runaway garbage truck smashing into her family's cars, WTAE-TV reports.
It happened Friday, on 10th Street in New Brighton, Pa.
The garbage truck has one car already jammed under it when it takes out a second car, pushing it down the hill, running up on the sidewalk, and wiping out garbage cans. It stops, out of view, after smashing into at least five cars: two of them belong to Lisa's mother and son.
Then a waste management worker runs after the truck. A few seconds later, a second one follows behind trying to catch up.
"I was shocked. There was nobody watching the truck," Josh Ridenour said.
A waste management spokeswoman said the crash is under investigation.
"We have not even heard from them, not at all," Ferguson said.
A report from New Brighton police says the garbage truck driver got out and walked 10 feet away to talk to a supervisor, then somehow the brakes "disengaged."
Ferguson says because waste management isn't talking, both her son and her mother, are having to use their own insurance and cash to cover the damage.
"Be more responsible. There could have been lives lost," Ferguson said.
A spokeswoman for waste management wouldn't say if the driver has been suspended or disciplined at all for this crash but did say the trucks have cameras in the cab and they'll be looking at that video.
