Truck strikes building in Ulster
Review Photo/BRIAN BISHOP Responders work to reposition pipes on a truck involved in a crash Thursday afternoon in Ulster.
Review Photo/BRIAN BISHOP This tractor-trailer impacted a building at the corner of Route 6 and Bridge Street in Ulster.
ULSTER - A tractor-trailer hauling metal pipes struck a building Thursday afternoon in Ulster after the driver lost control of the vehicle after the truck's load shifted.
State police at Towanda said no injuries were reported in the crash.
Cindy Chase, who runs Chase's Antiques and Collectibles in the building owned by her parents, Harold and Connie Bixby, said she was outside the building closing up the store with her back to the intersection of Route 6 and Bridge Street in Ulster when she heard someone yelling at her to get out of the way.
She turned, and saw a tractor-trailer heading right for her, she said, with the driver partially out of the cab. Chase said after the driver told her he couldn't stop the truck, she jumped out of the way of the vehicle right before it struck the front door of her shop.
"I was pretty lucky," she said.
Chase said the truck's impact appeared to have shifted the building off its foundation slightly and caused some damage near the door, but didn't cause any interior damage. The building houses Chase's shop in the downstairs portion, and apartments upstairs, she said. The building will be inspected to make sure the foundation is still sound, she said.
"It could have been worse," Chase said.
State police on scene said that the accident occurred as some of the pipes on the truck slid forward into the cab and the driver lost control of the vehicle.
Rescue personnel from the Ulster Fire Department, Greater Valley EMS and Ulster EMS responded to the scene. Workers from Texas Transco, a trucking firm that hauls water to natural gas drilling sites that has a shop in Ulster, responded to the scene with a service truck to reposition the pipes on the trailer so that the truck could be moved out of the accident scene.
The truck involved in the crash had "Washita Valley Enterprises Inc." printed on the doors.
No other information was available as of late Thursday evening on the crash.
Brian Bishop can be reached at (570) 888-9652; or e-mail: bbishop@thedailyreview.com.
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