There's no way of knowing for sure just how fast the truck was travelling but the force of the impact broke a window, a wall and scattered brick.
It's good to have a contractor as a friend who can answer an urgent call to come repair your home. “We have emergencies all the time,” said Richard Wychman. But nothing quite like this.
A street sweeper truck left a gaping hole in the front of his business partner's home on the 2600 block of Palmyra Drive in Churchville. It happened around 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. “I thought I heard a dump truck going by and a thump sound,” explained neighbor Jerry Allen, “so I decided to look outside." Much to his surprise, a street sweeper slammed right into his friends' home. They are on vacation. So he snapped pictures and called them.
Allen also got a firsthand account from the driver of the runaway street sweeper. “From what he told me what happened was he parked by the silver truck went to another neighbors house to get his truck to move, the blue truck,” he said, “as he was at the neighbor's house the sweeper took off on it's own." The huge machine, which was being used to prepare the road for re-surfacing, rolled down the hill crashing into a guest bedroom. “That bed used to against the wall, I didn't move anything, it probably moved that bed about 4 feet," said contractor Richard Wychman.
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