Trucker choking on Dr Pepper crashes milk tanker into car dealship, smashes 23 new cars
Texting and driving gets all the attention today, but remember that literally everything you do while driving that doesn't involve, well, driving, is distracted driving. Case in point: 58-year-old truck driver Thomas Young, who over the weekend crashed into a car dealership in Hermitage, Pennsylvania because he wasn't able to effectively negotiate driving a milk truck while drinking a soda. The Sharon Herald reports:
Hermitage police were called to the scene at 1435 N. Hermitage Road a little before 4 p.m. after the truck – a tractor-trailer milk tanker – crashed into new cars and part of a building at Montrose Buick-GMC-Cadillac. Police said the truck, driven by Thomas Young, 58, of Royal Center, Ind., was traveling north in the right lane on North Hermitage Road when it drifted then veered left, crossing the southbound lanes in front of Wal-Mart at 1275 N. Hermitage Road. The truck left the road, jumped the curb, grazed a utility pole and a tree and rumbled about 550 feet through a grassy area, across a driveway into Wal-Mart and down an embankment into the Montrose lot, police said. Young was not injured, police said, but a 23 new cars were damaged, including one that was pushed into the dealership showroom, where it damaged another car inside. Young said he began choking on a sip of Dr Pepper, causing him to lose control of the rig. There appeared to be no attempts at braking and an inspection by the Pennsylvania State Police revealed that there were no mechanical problems with the truck. Young was cited for careless driving.No one was hurt, but no word on whether any milk was spilled.
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