Holy shit! A truck carrying cars just crashed into the restaurant next door!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I work in the office building next door to a restaurant. Our windows were open because it’s nice. We didn’t see the crash, but we sure as hell heard it. If there are no dead people inside, it’s a miracle. Ambulances, cops, fire trucks, everything is outside. The truck was coming down a steep hill and now it’s buried in the building. A passersby said it looked like he lost brakes, but he may have passed out.

I just walked outside to look and my hands are shaking. Never been this close to a legitimate tragedy before. If he’d crashed into my building, I’d be a fuckin’ grease spot right now. The people who were eating dinner and the waitstaff are probably fuckin’ grease spots right now. :frowning:

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What city?

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Sad and scary. I’m glad you’re ok, Rachel.

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Ithaca, NY

It happened right before rush so I’m sure traffic’s going to be an issue. Not that that is important. I heard it was full of diners and one was a pregnant woman. I don’t know how my coworker found that out, maybe he went out and saw someone being carried out. I don’t even know how they’re going to get to the people inside because the front door, windows, and whole facade are caved in

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Story here: http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20140620/NEWS01/306200044/Tractor-trailer-crashes-into-Ithaca-restaurant

Holy mazoley. I think that entire building is going to come down.

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Good grief, what a horror.

Just hoping that those injured are going to be OK, but by the look of the scene I’m not confident.

:eek:

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DAMN that news cycle is fucking fast. Thanks for the link MsWhatsit. I did not want to take pictures because it seems unseemly. I am glad to know that they were able to reach the wounded quickly

You can’t see it well in that picture, but there are apartments above the truck and a whole corner of them is crumbling down. You can kinda see the rooms

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Wow. I agree with MsWhatsit. The building is already leaning, once they remove the truck, I think at least part of the building will collapse.

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Not a good day for big trucks plowing into eateries in NY? :eek: Even the two pictures are remarkably similar!

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I could be wrong, but I think that “leaning” is an optical effect of the wide angle lens.

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Or so they’d have us think. There’s no way a truck could cause that kind of damage. Obviously a controlled demolition. Wake up, sheeple!

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Imgur

I can’t get close now that the police tape is up, but if you zoom in you can see inside people’s apartments!

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Wow, shit. Glad you are OK. I hope there aren’t any fatalities or serious injuries as a result.

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Hearsay only, but my fiance’s co-worker’s father is a funeral director and said one child has died. So far.

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Why the heck do they have SWAT on site?

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All hands on deck?

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Geez, I used to eat at Viva Taqueria near there a lot in college. I don’t see how that building isn’t coming down.

Those are dangerous hills!

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According to USA Today, that’s an actual lean to the building. Also one dead, four injured.

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It’s probably the only SWAT truck owned by the city, it makes sense to air it out occasionally.

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SWAT teams often have training in rigging and high-rise rescue.