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Driver Attacks L.A. Garbage Truck Driver with Crowbar
The driver was transported to the hospital after the truck’s shattered windshield hit her face.
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In Wilmington, Calif., an irate motorist attacked a Los Angeles city garbage truck driver with a crowbar, causing the driver to be transported to the hospital after the truck’s shattered windshield hit her face.
According to Elena Stern, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Sanitation, the driver smashed a window and the windshield of the truck along the 1300 block of Ronan Avenue around 7:45 a.m. on September 15, 2016.
Los Angeles Daily News has the details:
An irate motorist attacked a Los Angeles city trash truck with a crowbar Thursday in Wilmington, sending the truck driver to the hospital after the shattered windshield hit her face, officials said.
The city employee was working in the 1300 block of Ronan Avenue when an angry man got out of his car and approached the refuse truck at 7:45 a.m., Bureau of Sanitation spokeswoman Elena Stern said.
“He grabbed a crowbar from his car and smashed both a window and the windshield on the collection vehicle,” Stern said.
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