Overturned dump truck hits Haslet home after crash
Overturned dump truck hits Haslet home after crash
Two drivers and a Haslet homeowner have a scary store to tell after a tire blowout led to a dump truck hitting a house.
HASLET, Texas - Two drivers and a Haslet homeowner have a scary store to tell after a tire blowout led to a dump truck hitting a house.
What we know:
The crash happened around 11 a.m. on Avondale-Haslet Road.
Neighbors told FOX 4 that the young driver of a Mercedes sedan had a tire blowout that caused him to swerve into a dump truck.
Images from SKY 4 showed the dump truck on its side after apparently leaving the roadway, smashing through a fence, and hitting a house.
The dump truck driver was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said the sedan ended up on nearby train tracks, but the driver only had minor injuries.
A woman who lives in the damaged home was there at the time and was just on the other side of the wall that was hit. She also only suffered minor injuries, the sheriff’s office said.
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What they're saying:
The dump truck driver’s daughter said she rushed to the scene of the crash as soon as her stepmother told her the news.
"I don’t think I’ve run that fast in a long time. They’d already taken him to Harris," Chelsea Stone said.
Stone said her father, Dale Collins, is in the ICU but expected to survive.
"My step-brother sent me a picture. He is in the ICU. They are doing X-rays, but he is talking, conscious, and knows what’s going on," she said. "We were told he had a big laceration on his face and had a hard time standing up on the dump truck. But he was walking when they extracted him."
Remarkably, his dog, Hank, did not have a scratch on him.
"I joked with the kids that dad is such a good dump truck driver that when he rolled the truck, the dog came out completely unhurt," Stone said.
What we don't know:
The sheriff’s office has not yet confirmed the cause of the crash.
There’s no word on the extent of the home’s damage.
The Source: The information in this story comes from traffic reports and SKY 4.