Driver treated for shock after truck ploughs through fences and cars before smashing into bungalow in Brierley Hill
Residents of a quiet Black Country street have spoken of their shock after a runaway truck rolled down a hill, hitting multiple vehicles and destroying fences before crashing into a bungalow.
The highways maintenance truck was parked up in Mousehall Farm Road., Brierley Hill before suddenly rolling down the steep road and towards homes.
The truck, believed to be full of tarmac, smashed straight through several garden fences and hit three vehicles but did not stop until it crashed into the front of a bungalow, with the driver seen jumping from the cab moments before the final impact.
Two hatchback cars and a white van were hit as well as trees and two dividing fences which were destroyed but luckily nobody was hurt in the incident at around 2pm today, West Midlands Police officers at the scene said.
The bungalow and the one adjoining it are understood to have been unoccupied.
The owner of a blue Ford Fiesta car which suffered extensive damage, Sian Kitson, said she was working from home when she heard a loud bang.
She said: I looked out and the car wasn't there, it turned out the truck had shunted it into next door's garden and it is very badly damaged. I am only 25 and had to buy the car on finance which I had just finished paying for. I also bought new tyres for it at the weekend."
A neighbour further up the street, who did not want to be named, said she was inside her house when she heard a whirring sound then a loud bang and could see the truck careering over gardens, into fences and the cars.
She said: "It took out part of one of my trees and hit another which has been there at least 70 years to my knowledge but that was the extent of the damage for us. I guess others weren't so lucky but at least nobody was injured.
The driver was treated for shock at the scene.
A statement from the West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We were called to reports on an RTC [road traffic collision] involving a lorry and a building on Mousehall Farm Road in Quarry Bank, Brierley Hill at 1.53pm and sent an ambulance and our Hazardous Area Response Team to the scene.
"On arrival, there were no patients found and we were stood down."
A statement from West Midlands Police said: "We went to the scene of an incident where a lorry hit a property in Mousehall Farm Road, Quarry Bank, just before 2pm.
"Thankfully, no-one has been injured and enquiries are ongoing to establish the details."
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