11 car owners in Manhattan say a New York City snow plow sideswiped their cars. The Sanitation Department is saying there’s no proof yet it was one of theirs.
It happened early Thursday on a 2-block stretch of West 110th street between Broadway and Columbus Avenue in Morningside Heights. Pointing out the damage to his Mini-Cooper, Grant Held said, “What else could it have been? There were just sliced cars.”
He also got surveillance video from his building taken at 5:17 a.m. that shows a city plow driving by. The police incident report narrowed down the time to 5:20 a.m.
Mr. Held and another car owner said investigators on the scene themselves believed it was a city plow that did the damage.
“We were told by police and sanitation people that their truck hit it,” he said.
However, a spokesman from the Sanitation Department said, “No one said they saw a particular truck with a truck number on it… if people do have more concrete information showing one of our trucks hitting the cars, we’re more than happy to see it.”
For now, the car owners have to make claims to their insurance companies.
(Source: WABC)
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“NYC Snow Plow Accused Of Hitting 11 Cars”
Really?
Since when has a “snow plow” been a sentient and sapient being, responsible for its own actions?
Now, if the headline had reported that the DRIVER of the snow plow had been accused that would have been a different matter altogether.
Sloppy sub-editing.
Actually, if you had read the article, that is exactly what has happened.
A Plow has been accused as they do not know which driver it was.
I have read the article, yoni_Chardal, thank you.
I will say it again – with nikkud, if you like: an inanimate object, like a snow plow, has no brain and no intellect.
How can anyone accuse it of doing anything|?
If anyone is to be accused in this case, it is the so far unnamed operator.
[“There are none so blind as those who will not see!”]