Garbage truck delays breakfast

A PRINCES Town family of four had to delay having breakfast on Monday after a runaway garbage truck crashed into their home.

Kelvin Ganpat, one of the family members, said he was preparing breakfast at the family’s St Croix Road, home at around 7.30 am, when he heard his brother Reynold, who was in the front yard, shouting for someone to “mash brakes!”. Ganpat said when he ran outside he saw a garbage truck minus its driver rolling down the incline driveway. He said he and his brother had to run for safety. The runaway truck damaged scaffolding which was being used for construction of an upper level of the house, a Mazda 323 van, an outside stairway and a wheelbarrow.

Ganpat could not say the cost of the damages. Ganpat said the driver of the truck had alighted from the vehicle to inform the garbage collector from which side of the road garbage should be collected. The collector, new to the area was unaware that he was to collect the garbage placed on the left side of St Croix Road alone, since that side of the road fell under the Princes Town Regional Corporation, with which he was employed. The right side falls under the Debe/Penal Regional Corporation. Barrackpore police are continuing investigations.