Driver passes out and plows into Deerfield home, sheriff’s office says
The driver of the truck from Gimler Plumbing passed out while driving. The driver told firefighters he had been working on a roof earlier that morning.
What may have started as a medical incident sent a worker’s plumbing truck into a house in Deerfield Beach Monday.
The incident happened about 8:40 at a house at the corner of Southeast Street and Southeast 15th Avenue.
Mike Jachles, spokesman for Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue, said the driver of the truck from Gimler Plumbing passed out while driving. The driver told firefighters he had been working on a roof earlier that morning.
The full extent of the damage wasn’t immediately known but a woman who resides in the home said the crash took out a a.m. 10th concrete pillar and a dining room window at the front of the home.
The crash started across the street from the home when the truck went off the road, digging up grass, plowing down a mailbox, destroying a garbage can and recycling can before knocking down a small palm tree.
From there, the truck crossed the street, ran over several small trees and then slammed into the house.
Neighborhood resident Paul Kaplan, 70, said his wife, Michele, watched the incident unfold.
“She was having breakfast, looking out the window and she saw him take out the mailbox, “Kaplan said. “Then we just heard the smash [into the house].”
No one inside the home said.
was
hurt,
asacasa@tribpub.com, 561-243-6607 or Twitter & Instagram @adamsacasa
Jachles