NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. — A truck towing a trailer carrying a portable toilet crashed into a home along Lincoln Highway in North Versailles Tuesday afternoon, leaving behind significant damage and sending two people to a hospital.
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Emergency dispatchers said the crash happened shortly before 2:15 p.m. near the intersection of Lincoln Highway and Reiss Lane.
James Hairston, owner of Love for Thrift, was inside his business when he heard the collision.
“You just heard like a bang. You know it was a crash because there’s always accidents out here,” Hairston said.
According to Hairston and other witnesses, the truck first struck two parked vehicles in a nearby parking lot.
“This truck carrying a trailer with a port-a-potty took out two parked cars at the end of our lot right there,” he said.
Witnesses said the truck then knocked down a fire hydrant before continuing into a nearby home.
“When he had to come off of Route 30 and hit these two parked cars and they veered over toward the trash cans, and he actually kept barreling straight,” Hairston said.
The impact left a large hole in the side of the house.
Despite the damage, witnesses said no one was inside the home when the crash occurred.
Hairston recalled a similar incident that happened nearby last year.
“Literally right in the exact same spot, last fall, another truck came through there and took out a car in the exact same spot,” he said.
Channel 11 also learned PennDOT is already planning future construction projects aimed at improving safety along this stretch of Lincoln Highway.
Hairston believes those improvements cannot come soon enough.
“That right there was like an example of DOT doing the right thing by getting ready to put a jersey barrier and widen this out and stop all the turning and speeding,” he said.
Two people were taken to a hospital following the crash.
Their conditions have not been released.
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