Woodberry Heights, New Jersey – Emergency crews rushed to a chaotic scene on Tuesday afternoon after a vacuum truck entered a house in New Jersey.
Police says that the truck driver was traveling north on the Woodbury Glasburo road when the car left the road at around 1:30 pm and hit a phone on Vervio Street in Gloster Province.
Emptying a home destroying truck in Woodbury Heights
In the Dashcam video obtained by the sister station, news 6abc Action in Philadelphia, you can see the truck traveling at 50 miles per hour after you leave the road before you reach a house on Stratford Street.
One of the neighbors was holding her child and was heading abroad when she heard the accident.
The rescuers are at the scene after a vacuum truck crashed into a house in Gloster Province, New Jersey.
“My son and I were out of our door when I heard a loud accident while we were going out,” said Samantha Berk. “The next thing that I know was a truck in the yard of our neighbor, at his home.”
Burke continued, “I heard my neighbor screaming, but the house started to collapse, so we couldn’t do anything.”
The neighbor was taken inside the house to the hospital for evaluation.
Police believes that a garbage truck driver has a medical emergency before the accident.
The driver has been trapped in the truck for more than two hours, but has been saved since then. The officials said the driver was alert and speaking.
A video of Chopper 6 has almost the truck showed almost entirely inside the house.
The debris can be seen a few homes, followed by tire tracks in the neighboring houses ’promoters leading to the scene.
Firefighters were seen trying to formulate the front of the house before it was demolished on Tuesday night.
Woodbury-GlassBoro is closed between Elm Avenue and Chestnut Avenue, and the police expect to close it for a long period of time.
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