Truck crashes into Centerville home
A truck tractor crashed into a Centerville home on Grimes Avenue Monday afternoon. The driver of the truck was found unresponsive and taken to Mon Valley Hospital.
A truck tractor owned by C&J Energy Services of Canonsburg crashed into a Centerville home on Grimes Avenue Monday afternoon.
CENTERVILLE – A home in the Malden area of Centerville was heavily damaged Monday afternoon when a truck tractor went off Route 40 east of Old National Pike and crashed into a house on Grimes Avenue.
The driver was found unresponsive inside the cab, according to Denbo-Vesta Six fire Chief Eric Kucera. The driver was taken to Monongahela Valley Hospital. No information was available on his identity or condition.
The truck was traveling east on Route 40 about 4:30 p.m. when it went off the right side of the road, over bushes near the road and traveled about 25 feet before going between two large trees and into the house. Kucera said the truck split between the two trees.
Robert Lacey, his wife, Stacey, and 15-year-old daughter, Emily, were not home when the truck hit their two-story frame house. Robert Lacey looked in disbelief at the two trees the truck went between without hitting.
“When I heard it was hit, I didn’t think it would have been back here,” Lacey said. “I would have thought it was impossible with those two trees.”
Lacey went inside to check out the damage on the first floor, but he did not go to the second floor.
“All the walls which are made of dry wall are split. I am sure it is that way on the second floor,” Lacey said. “The inside wall is moved. There is no block in the basement where the truck hit. We had a hot tub down there so I am sure that was hit.”
He said his family were on a weekend trip.
“It is a good thing we weren’t home,” Lacey said.
The crash is under investigation by state police at the Belle Vernon station. Assisting Denbo-Vesta Six were firefighters from Richeyville and Brownsville Ambulance Service. Bujanowski Towing removed the truck Monday night.
The truck is owned by C&J Energy Services, a Southpointe-based company that says on its website it is a leading provider of well construction, well completions and well services to the oil and gas industry.