New surveillance video shows a box truck barreling down a street, jumping onto a sidewalk and hitting a pedestrian in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood, while another jumps out of the way. The crash hospitalized four people on Tuesday — none were in critical condition by Wednesday.
Note: We have paused the video so it doesn’t show the man being hit.
Dramatic surveillance video shows an apparently out-of-control truck crashing into a person on a sidewalk in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood on Tuesday.
Multiple people remained in the hospital Wednesday, and police were still investigating what happened in the crash on the corner of Kneeland Street and Harrison Avenue. The truck ended up wedged between Tora Ramen and a telephone pole.
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Four people were transported to the hospital, including the driver of the Penske truck that lost control and crashed. (Two others refused to be taken to the hospital.) The driver remained hospitalized Wednesday, authorities said, while one of the other patients had been in critical condition but has since been upgraded to fair condition.
Surveillance video from the restaurant that was hit by the box truck shows pedestrians jumping out of the way as the truck barrels onto the sidewalk and into the facade of the restaurant. We are pausing the video before it shows one of those pedestrians sent flying by the impact.
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The restaurant that was struck remained boarded up Wednesday but, following a building inspection, it's expected to reopen Thursday. A traffic signal destroyed by the truck was also reinstalled.
Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said Tuesday that the preliminary investigation suggested the crash was a tragic accident, and investigators have said they were looking into the possibility that the driver might have had a medical issue, as they believe he had a previously diagnosed medical condition.
Other surveillance video showed the truck -- that was rented out to a commercial trucking company – heading west on Kneeland Street moments before the accident.
Witnesses said they tried to help the driver who was trapped in the truck, and the others who were injured, as soon as they heard the crash.
“Like a loud noise, like a boom, like something is from the sky….I go run outside and then I see the truck flip over, so I see a lot of people fly over there and help the driver," one person said. “I got a piece of metal, broke the windshield, tried to get out, but I can’t because the leg was stuck on something.”
"Definitely terrifying thinking that you're getting lunch of coffee and that a car could hit you," said Lexy Lamparelli, who works nearby.
