HOPEWELL BOROUGH — A box truck crashed into a parked car on West Broad Street early Thursday morning, pushing the car across the sidewalk and damaging a gas meter, police reported.
The truck, which left the scene of the 4:52 a.m. accident, crashed into a Honda Civic parked on the street between North Greenwood Avenue and Mercer Street. The crash forced the car across the sidewalk, damaging three park benches, a stone hitching post, a lamppost, metal trash receptacles and a small tree, before coming to rest against the front of a business and damaging the gas meter. No injuries were reported.
Police said the truck left the scene but an eyewitness description led to locating the truck in Montgomery Township, where it was reportedly involved in another crash. The truck, a 2006 International was under contract to deliver U.S. Mail.
The driver, Samuel Roberts, 69, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was issued summonses by Officer James Klesney for reckless driving, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle crash, failing to report a motor vehicle crash with property damage, failure to possess a commercial driver’s license, failure to produce credentials and improper display of license plates. His case will be heard in municipal court.
The Hopewell Fire Department shut off the gas and as a precaution evacuated residents living above the businesses on West Broad Street. Elizabethtown Gas arrived and checked the area, deeming it safe for residents to return home a short time later, police said.
West Broad Street between North Greenwood and Louellen Street was closed for about 90 minutes, police said.
