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Concrete Truck Plows Into Canal Street Sidewalk, Injuring Eight

3:46 PM EST on November 11, 2009

Canal_St_accident_11Nov09.jpgPhoto: Matt Hogan.

Eight people were injured this afternoon after a concrete truck careened into the sidewalk on the one-block diagonal linking Canal Street to the Bowery.

Vehicles exiting the Manhattan Bridge have turned this block, often teeming with people waiting for the Fung Wah Bus, into a constant danger zone. Here's what an employee at the jewelry store across the street told the Tribeca Trib:

"Ever since I was a kid, trucks come flying off the bridge," he said. "It’s at least three or four times a year, this happens, and it’salways these trucks. They fly right off that thing like there’s notomorrow."

After 10 years at the store, John said he no longerventures across the intersection for his lunch for fear of becoming thenext casualty.

Update: Reader Matt Hogan informs us that the truck bed was packed with what looked like 50-pound bags of cement at the time of the crash. The rear of the vehicle is outfitted with an apparatus for mixing and pouring out concrete.

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