{"id":17640,"date":"2025-01-03T00:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/garbage-truck-partially-swallowed-by-alleyway-sink-hole-after-driver-drags-away-barricade\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T00:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:37:57","slug":"garbage-truck-partially-swallowed-by-alleyway-sink-hole-after-driver-drags-away-barricade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/garbage-truck-partially-swallowed-by-alleyway-sink-hole-after-driver-drags-away-barricade\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage truck partially swallowed by alleyway sink hole after driver drags away barricade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A garbage truck plunged partway into a sinkhole after the driver ignored a barricade on Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on January 2nd at around 8:30 a.m. near 16th and Farnam Streets in Omaha, Nebraska.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/article\/omaha-garbage-truck-crashes-hole\/63322142\">KETV 7<\/a>, the garbage truck driver got out of the truck to physically move a barricade away from the alleyway before driving into the narrow area. The truck then fell partially into a 10-12 foot deep hole with power and gas lines running through it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the barricade was blocking an existing sinkhole, or if the truck created one. Omaha City Engineers say that the area was already a concern for officials prior to the incident, and that the city had already been investigating sewer issues in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police advise drivers to take an alternate route.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drone video shows aftermath of garbage truck crashing into sinkhole in downtown Omaha\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b1uGGl9iGqI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/garbage-truck-partially-swallowed-by-alleyway-sink-hole-after-driver-drags-away-barricade\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A garbage truck plunged partway into a sinkhole after the driver ignored a barricade on Thursday morning.\u00a0 The accident happened on January 2nd at around 8:30 a.m. near 16th and Farnam Streets in Omaha, Nebraska.\u00a0 According to KETV 7, the garbage truck driver got out of the truck to physically move a barricade away from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}