Last Friday, a cement truck from Half Moon Bay Building and Garden company careened down Shipley Avenue before violently unsettling the daily peace of Daly City residents. According to NBC Bay Area, the unattended vehicle rolled downhill from a construction site, striking two homes, leading to the displacement of at least 14 individuals, though thankfully sparing the infliction of bodily harm.
The Daly City police and North County Fire Department have not yet detailed the event's specifics. However, the consequences were immediate, as workers hurried to stabilize the affected homes yet were unable to undo the grievous structural injuries inflicted by the massive truck. "I'm a bit traumatized," homeowner Jennifer Lu confessed to NBC Bay Area, having nearly missed a family tragedy. "Luckily my kids weren't here, but my father was here. Luckily he was downstairs and not upstairs when this happened. But I'm just a little bit in shock."
The incident, around 11 AM near Simpson Drive, left both residences severely compromised, their condition so perilous that the Daly City Building Department promptly issued red tags. The utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric, arrived to sever the flow of services to the stricken homes, according to a report by CBS News San Francisco.
Crews were compelled to spend arduous hours transferring the indurate contents of the truck to facilitate its extraction from the crash site. "Nobody got hurt, which is the good part," Lu emphasized, as reported by NBC Bay Area, clinging to the sole yet significant silver lining as she faced the reality of an uninhabitable home.
