A quiet neighbourhood just a block from James Park elementary school was brought jarringly into action Tuesday morning when a Dodge Ram truck hit a sidewalk curb and a cedar tree before flying through the air and landing on its side outside of a house in the 1600 block of Westminster Avenue.
Gayle Carlson, who was in the house at the time, said she heard a bang and glass breaking because the truck hit the second storey picture window before hitting the ground.
Her husband, Stephen, was painting a door and said a piece of the truck fell near him.
"They took him off in an ambulance," Carlson said, of the male driver, who had to be strapped to a board and carried into the emergency vehicle.
The incident occurred around 10 a.m. and brought Coquitlam RCMP and members of the Port Coquitlam fire department to the scene.
Another neighbour reported that a chocolate lab had been hit during the accident, which look like it began nearly half a block away where tracks show the truck drove on the boulevard and the sidewalk, knocking down a small tree, continued across a road before flying through the air into the house.
The Tri-City News is awaiting more details from the Coquitlam RCMP as it is not known what caused the accident that took place so close to an elementary school.
