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Auto,
semi-truck collision destroys portion of a home
By Bob Robinson
GREENVILLE – “It all happened so fast,” said Dan Amspaugh, Union City,
“I never saw it coming.”
Amspaugh was driving the semi-truck involved in the accident at Central
Avenue and Pine Street.
“A car hit me,” he said. “She told me she didn’t see the stop sign.”
About 6:15 a.m. Sept. 10, a car reportedly pulled out of Central Avenue
from the south, turning left onto Pine Street. It collided with the
semi-truck being driven by Amspaugh.
A witness, Bonnie Teabow, said “the car went on the other side of the
street, while the semi clipped the corner of my yard and took out that
house down there.”
According to Greenville Police Lt. Steve Strick, the passenger car
failed to yield at the stop sign and hit the truck. The truck clipped
the corner of the Teabow yard, struck the porch of 156 Pine St.,
demolished the front room of 148 Pine St., struck a garage across the
alley, then a shed and finally did minor damage to another vehicle
before coming to a rest.
“We’re not considering excessive speed at this point,” Strick continued
but noted he had not as yet seen the report. “It looked like a steering
control problem.”
Amspaugh confirmed this later, adding “I’m cleared of everything.”
“It broke my steering,” he said. “A tie rod. I had absolutely no
control over the truck at that point.”
Another witness, John Glessner, is a former truck driver. He said with
a collision like this the driver can lose all control over his truck.
He added it happened to him once in Chicago.
Teabow said the sound of the crash woke her up. She came out in time to
see smoke coming from the back seat of the car.
“You never know what is going to happen. She (the driver) couldn’t get
out so some people pulled her out through her window.”
At that point, the passenger car was no longer on the scene, although
there was still debris on the street and considerable visible damage to
the home and the garage on the north side of Pine. The truck was back
about 100 feet off the road.
Amspaugh said he didn’t see smoke coming from the car but didn’t know
if the driver had been pulled out of her vehicle.
Both Amspaugh and the unnamed female driver were treated and released
at Wayne Emergency. Amspaugh had bruised ribs from the accident. There
were no injuries to occupants in any of the structures.
The driver of the car was cited for Failure to Yield, according to
Strick.
He looked at the damage and noted many insurance companies were going
to be involved in the incident.
Published courtesy
of Blue Bag Media
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