BADEN, Pa. — A garbage truck crashed into a home Thursday morning in Beaver County.
The crash happened shortly after 6 a.m. on Berry Street in Baden, officials said. The truck slid down a hill and went through a railing before hitting the house.
Neighbors said hills in the neighborhood were sheets of ice at the time of the accident.
A family of five -- a mother, father and three children -- was sleeping inside the home when the truck crashed into the living room. None of them were hurt, and neither was the driver.
“The dog came running into the bedroom. He was asleep in the living room where the truck had actually come through. It was very loud though, so when we got up, we could see the front of the truck in our living room,” Danielle Panek, who lives in the home that was hit, said.
The driver told the family he started sliding sideways one street over, so he decided to get off that hill and try another one. He quickly found out it wasn’t any better.
“It’s good that it happened when it did, because a half an hour later we would have been in that room,” Panek said.
The crash happened minutes before Panek’s boyfriend’s alarm goes off.
Crews pulled the truck out of the house just after 8 a.m.
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