An 18-wheeler smashed into a limo business along a major New Jersey highway early Monday morning — trapping the driver and an upstairs resident who was sleeping at the time.
Wild photos show the front of Toptown LimoRide completely obliterated with the truck, which was carrying dog food, sticking out along Route 3 in Clifton.
The crash happened around 2:20 a.m. when the truck driver was attempting to turn off on the exit ramp, ABC 7 reported. The morning rush on Monday was snarled as a result — though buses were still picking up passengers at the bus stop right outside the limo shop.
“We just heard the loudest crash we have ever heard,” a neighbor told News 12.
“It was like an explosion. We thought we were being bombed. It was crazy. There was smoke and there was nobody around.”
The driver needed to be extricated from the commercial truck with a USA Truck logo and went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Clifton police Lt. Robert Anderson told the Bergen Record.
A person who was sleeping upstairs in the building also had to be freed.
The building suffered extensive damage and authorities shut down utilities in the surrounding area, Anderson said.
A call to the police department was not immediately returned.
“The building was at least eight or 12 inches out of square, it’s leaning, it’s very precarious in there,” Clifton Fire Department Deputy Chief William Legates told News 12.
“The guy said they saw the roof was collapsed down on the cab, the cab was totally crushed.”
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