HENRICO, Va. – It was a quiet afternoon on Elm Street, until Lisa Parsley said she heard gears shifting and an engine grumbling; that’s when she grabbed her phone.
She’s been concerned about an 18 wheeler rolling through the narrow streets of her neighborhood.
She pointed out a where the driver made a left on a narrow corner. Then, within seconds, she said the semi snagged low hanging lines, pulling and snapping them from two homes.
“It involves the siding, the shingles, the cord was connected to that and it was lying across the fence wrapped around the side of my gutter -- and he's still going,” Parsley said.
Parsley called 911 and captured cell phone video.
Police showed up and eventually the driver used a broom to free his truck from the lines. What was left of the lines just dangled.
“All of these lines are low most of them hanging across the road and then you have got vehicles parked on both sides and you really have got to watch how you go,” Parsley said. “There's no room for them.”
Now Parsley wants the county to step in and post signs that restrict semis from driving on narrow neighborhood roads like hers.
Now Parsley wants the county to step in and post signs that restrict semis from driving on narrow neighborhood roads like hers.
There is currently no height restriction, only an ordinance spelling out a 7,500-pound weight restriction for trucks driving in certain Henrico neighborhoods.
“They need to do more...need to act on it,” she said.
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