The driver of a large cement-pump truck was killed and four others injured when his massive vehicle sped off a Bronx highway Monday night and slammed into several cars and a three-story home, cops said.
The operator of the 40-ton truck veered off the Major Deegan Expressway in Morris Heights at around 6:20 p.m. and rammed into the brick structure, leaving a gaping hole in the wall.
“The whole living room wall was busted open,” said resident Taiesha Henry, 34. “You could see right outside into the street.”
Henry said she heard a loud thump and saw her two sons, ages 7 and 13, come screaming out of the living room after the crash.
“I grabbed my kids and we ran to the back,” she said. “They had to bust the windows open before they could rescue us.”
She and her family were not injured.
People living in neighboring houses were evacuated as officials were concerned the homes might collapse.
Henry stood outside in tears as they began to remove the truck and the facade of her home came crumbling apart.
“Oh, my God, my house,” she cried.
Four people in cars were injured when the truck smashed into them.