Thursday, July 08, 2004

The Truck Vs. the Apartment

If you aren't happy with where you live, at least your living room doesn't have a truck in it.

Before the apartment building ended the pickup truck's run Tuesday morning, it barreled over a bus stop sign, sped down an embankment and scraped three parked cars, residents said.

The driver, Michael Gross, 39, blacked out while driving south on Lake Otis Parkway near Dowling Road about 7:40 a.m., police said.

The truck swerved off the right of the road and traveled about 50 yards, dumping debris that included a propane tank, a toilet, a can of paint, and shards of wood, metal and reflector glass.

When it stopped, the front end of the pickup was inside the living room of the one-bedroom apartment in The Club at Eagle Point complex.
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