No Drive Thru Jokes Please
So I wake up this morning and decide to check the weather before heading into work when I see a news story about a truck hiting the CVS wear I work. My first thought is wait April fool's was last weekend.
Tanker crashes into CVS
http://rdu.news14.com/content/your_news/triangle/?AC=&ArID=102741
Updated: 4/3/2007 8:34 AM
By: News 14 Carolina Staff
RALEIGH -- A tanker truck ran through the front of a CVS on Tuesday morning. It happened just before 6:30 a.m. at the CVS on the corner of Glenwood Avenue and Millbrook Road in Raleigh. Police say the driver was inside the Shell gas station across the street when his truck rolled across the road, over the curb and into the front of the store. The store was not open at the time and there are no injuries. Police say the truck is full of gasoline but does not pose a threat.
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Unmanned Tanker Slams Into Raleigh Drug Store
Posted: Today at 7:16 a.m.
Updated: Today at 4:39 p.m.
Raleigh - The idea of a drive-thru pharmacy took on a whole new meaning in North Raleigh Tuesday morning, when a tanker truck rolled across six lanes of Glenwood Avenue and crashed into the window of a CVS Pharmacy at Millbrook Road.
The truck had been parked at a nearby Shell gas station when it rolled across the highway, dodging utility poles and several signs before smashing into the CVS store.
The tanker truck, loaded with gasoline, took out a brick wall and shattered the front door. But it stopped short of the cosmetics aisle. The store, which hadn’t opened for the day, was empty and no one was injured.
Police said the trucker, who drives for Huffman Oil Company, went inside the station to get a meter reading before unloading the fuel. When he came back out, his truck was in the drug store. None of the gasoline in the trailer leaked out, police said.
"We were very lucky this morning,” said Raleigh Police Capt. Terrie Hardy. “here was light traffic due to spring break, and (it happened at) 6:20 in the morning."
CVS trucker Mike Shiflett was driving from Virginia when he heard about this accident on the radio. He thought nothing of it until he made his first stop.
"The manager of this store, his wife came in and said 'No, there's a truck that run into the CVS and it'll probably be a long time before you make a delivery,’” Shiflett said.
By early afternoon, a wrecker pulled the rig out from beneath the store’s "Welcome" sign.
Investigators have not said whether it was driver error or a mechanical problem that caused the truck to roll away. A CVS spokesperson says it's not clear when the store will be ready to re-open.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1257985/
Tanker crashes into CVS
http://rdu.news14.com/content/your_news/triangle/?AC=&ArID=102741
Updated: 4/3/2007 8:34 AM
By: News 14 Carolina Staff
RALEIGH -- A tanker truck ran through the front of a CVS on Tuesday morning. It happened just before 6:30 a.m. at the CVS on the corner of Glenwood Avenue and Millbrook Road in Raleigh. Police say the driver was inside the Shell gas station across the street when his truck rolled across the road, over the curb and into the front of the store. The store was not open at the time and there are no injuries. Police say the truck is full of gasoline but does not pose a threat.
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Unmanned Tanker Slams Into Raleigh Drug Store
Posted: Today at 7:16 a.m.
Updated: Today at 4:39 p.m.
Raleigh - The idea of a drive-thru pharmacy took on a whole new meaning in North Raleigh Tuesday morning, when a tanker truck rolled across six lanes of Glenwood Avenue and crashed into the window of a CVS Pharmacy at Millbrook Road.
The truck had been parked at a nearby Shell gas station when it rolled across the highway, dodging utility poles and several signs before smashing into the CVS store.
The tanker truck, loaded with gasoline, took out a brick wall and shattered the front door. But it stopped short of the cosmetics aisle. The store, which hadn’t opened for the day, was empty and no one was injured.
Police said the trucker, who drives for Huffman Oil Company, went inside the station to get a meter reading before unloading the fuel. When he came back out, his truck was in the drug store. None of the gasoline in the trailer leaked out, police said.
"We were very lucky this morning,” said Raleigh Police Capt. Terrie Hardy. “here was light traffic due to spring break, and (it happened at) 6:20 in the morning."
CVS trucker Mike Shiflett was driving from Virginia when he heard about this accident on the radio. He thought nothing of it until he made his first stop.
"The manager of this store, his wife came in and said 'No, there's a truck that run into the CVS and it'll probably be a long time before you make a delivery,’” Shiflett said.
By early afternoon, a wrecker pulled the rig out from beneath the store’s "Welcome" sign.
Investigators have not said whether it was driver error or a mechanical problem that caused the truck to roll away. A CVS spokesperson says it's not clear when the store will be ready to re-open.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1257985/