Sewage Waste Truck Crashes Into Peninsula Front Yard: Police

BELMONT, CA – A sewage waste truck crashed into a Belmont neighborhood this week, settling into a person's front yard, when the driver apparently lost control of the heavy vehicle after servicing some area port-a-potties, officials say. The crash occurred at 2 pm. Friday in the 1100 block of Broadway.

Before ending in the yard, the sewage truck crashed into a fence and a parked van, city officials said. There were no reported injuries.

"The driver told officers that he was driving down Talbryn Drive, after servicing portable toilets a job site up the hill," Belmont Police Capt. Patrick Halleran said in a news release. "As he was approaching the intersection with Paloma Avenue, he began to experience problems with the truck's brakes."

The driver lost control of the 26,000-pound truck while heading down the road, which a has a significant downhill grade, Halleran said.

"The truck proceeded across Paloma Avenue and struck at fence and stop sign at the corner of Paloma Avenue and Broadway," Halleran said. "The truck continued down Broadway, striking a parked van and pushed the van into the front yard of a home. The sewage truck finally came to rest in the front yard of a home in the 1100 block of Broadway, damaging a fence and landscaping at that location."

The crashed closed the 1100 block of Broadway for more than two hours.

The driver, a 54-year-old Oakland man, was checked out by paramedics at the scene, but was not injured, the captain said. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

– Bay City News Service contributed to this report / Images via Belmont Police Department