NORTHPORT, N.Y. (WPIX) -
It's a devastating sight, a commercial garbage truck flipped on its side crushing a Honda.
The driver 56-year-old Deborah Shavalier never had a chance, she was killed instantly. Perhaps just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Yesterday the mother of two was in the right place, on top of the world actually. She was celebrating with her family, having a party for her son Erik who just went to the prom and graduated in the top ten of his class at Northport High School.
Her devoted husband David and loving daughter Kara, who just returned from college, were too heartbroken to speak.
As tragic as this accident is, people who live in the aren't that surprised, due to the sheer amount of commercial trucks that use these residential roadways.
"Seeing the trucks that go through here...it's a two-and-a-half ton limit except for deliveries," Keith McCartney told PIX News. "There are heavy trucks going through here all the time."
The truck driver told police his brakes failed, and to avoid going through this intersection, decided to make a quick turn on to Bread and Cheese Hollow Road. The truck overturned onto Shavalier who was driving to her job at a local flower shop, perhaps still smiling thinking about the graduation party, and her families bright future.
No charges were filed against the truck driver.
PIX News reached out to Jet Sanitation, but the company wouldn't comment on the crash.
Through his tears Shavalier's husband told PIX News he hopes there is a deeper investigation, so no other family has to go through what they're going through.
The driver 56-year-old Deborah Shavalier never had a chance, she was killed instantly. Perhaps just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Yesterday the mother of two was in the right place, on top of the world actually. She was celebrating with her family, having a party for her son Erik who just went to the prom and graduated in the top ten of his class at Northport High School.
Her devoted husband David and loving daughter Kara, who just returned from college, were too heartbroken to speak.
As tragic as this accident is, people who live in the aren't that surprised, due to the sheer amount of commercial trucks that use these residential roadways.
"Seeing the trucks that go through here...it's a two-and-a-half ton limit except for deliveries," Keith McCartney told PIX News. "There are heavy trucks going through here all the time."
The truck driver told police his brakes failed, and to avoid going through this intersection, decided to make a quick turn on to Bread and Cheese Hollow Road. The truck overturned onto Shavalier who was driving to her job at a local flower shop, perhaps still smiling thinking about the graduation party, and her families bright future.
No charges were filed against the truck driver.
PIX News reached out to Jet Sanitation, but the company wouldn't comment on the crash.
Through his tears Shavalier's husband told PIX News he hopes there is a deeper investigation, so no other family has to go through what they're going through.
