Garbage Truck Kills 2 Pedestrians
Two people were killed and two others were injured on Tuesday night when a garbage truck jumped the curb on West 35th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in Manhattan about 10:30 p.m., the police said. Investigators were looking into whether the driver may have had a medical problem.
Relying on New Jersey Roads, and Fearing Higher Tolls
The state’s warehouse and distribution industry is bracing for the worst with Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s plan for steep toll increases on roads.
Trucks Power China’s Economy, at a Suffocating Cost
Every night, columns of hulking freight trucks invade China’s major cities with a reverberating roar and dark clouds of diesel exhaust so thick it dims headlights.
Turn Back. Exit Village. Truck Shortcut Hitting Barrier.
Across Britain, trucks are increasingly being directed by G.P.S. navigation devices that fail to appreciate that the shortest route is not always the best route.
Manhattan: Truck Damaged Grate Before Collapse
A parked garbage truck weakened a sidewalk grate that later gave way under a woman who walked on it in May, Con Edison said yesterday. When the grate collapsed, the woman, Jessica Hinksmon, fell into a 10-foot-deep transformer vault beneath the sidewalk on 51st Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue. Ms. Hinksmon suffered minor injuries. A spokesman for Con Edison, Michael Clendenin, said a videotape showed that the truck was on the grate for at least 10 minutes, and that …