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Video from May 2012 deadly crash & fire ( and here)
Surveillance camera video from December 2, posted by Scott Krycia, as a truck narrowly misses slamming into a Pennsylvania firehouse built to replace the one that was destroyed by fire after a truck crashed into it in May of 2012.
Kurt Bresswein, The Express-Times:
Police say the 2012 crash that destroyed the Leithsville Fire Co. firehouse was on the mind Tuesday morning of a trash hauler as he was bearing down on the rebuilt station, his brakes not working.
Shawn Swavely, 41, of Quakertown, Pennsylvania, was coming down Flint Hill Road toward Route 412 at 8:56 a.m. in Lower Saucon Townshipwhen he realized the brakes had failed on the Reiss Hauling & Recycling trash truck, according to township police.
“He decided to attempt to make the left-hand turn onto Route 412 to avoid hitting the rebuilt firehouse, but the vehicle flipped over, snapping a telephone pole in half and crushing a parked vehicle,” township police wrote in a news release.
The firehouse was spared from the crash.
The driver and passenger of the truck sustained minor injuries and were taken to the hospital, police said.
Tuesday’s incident is eerily similar to a deadly crash that destroyed the firehouse back in 2012.
A dump truck crashed into a car on Route 412 on May 24, 2012, causing the two vehicles to slide into the station and spark a massive fire.
The driver of the car was killed and the driver of the dump truck was hurt.
