Pickup truck backs into garbage hopper at Belgrade transfer station - Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
BELGRADE — The transfer station closed three hours early Saturday after someone dumping garbage backed a pickup truck into the trash hopper but avoided injury. Few details were available Saturday afternoon, but Fire Chief Daniel MacKenzie said the truck’s diver wasn’t hurt and he was out of the truck before first responders got to the scene around noon Saturday. MacKenzie said he didn’t know the man’s name or why the truck went into the hopper, because he didn’t interview him. MacKenzie also said he didn’t know how the man got out of the truck. Someone backed a pickup truck into the hopper. The truck, which was loaded onto a flatbed tow truck, was a late-model maroon Ford F150 extended cab pickup with Massachusetts license plates. It had scratches on the cab roof and on the outside of the truck bed, as well as minor dents in the back of the truck bed and tailgate. Scheno said the transfer station will be open Tuesday for residents who weren’t able to dump their trash Saturday. Garbage thrown into the hopper slides down the sides into the hole, where a block of steel with 1,800 pounds of pressure pushes the garbage into a dumpster parked behind the hopper. Source: www.centralmaine.com
