Manchester Bumper Cars: Car, Garbage Truck Collide, Hit County Recycling Truck

(Credit: Manchester Township Police Department)

A Wawa parking lot in Manchester turned into a version of bumper cars Tuesday morning after a car collided with a garbage truck, which in turn hit an Ocean County recycling truck, police said.

No one was injured in the collisions, Manchester Capt. Lisa Parker said.

The accident at the Wawa in Whiting happened shortly after 10:15 a.m., when the green 2000 Chrysler Town and Country being driven east through the north parking lot by Remedios Brown, 80, made a left turn and collided with a green 2000 Mack Pinto Brothers garbage truck driven by James L. Rupinski, 45, Parker said. The garbage truck then hit a tan 2000 Mack recycling tractor trailer belonging to Ocean County that was parked in a designated parking space, Parker said.

Neither Brown nor Rupinski was hurt, she said.

Grone’s Towing responded to the scene to separate the 2000 Chrysler from garbage truck. The crash remains under investigation by Manchester Patrolman Ian Bole.