UPS Truck Slams into DuPont Home

A United Parcel Service (UPS) truck slammed into a DuPont home in the Hoffman Hill neighborhood late yesterday afternoon, taking out one of the home’s front porch support pillars and denting the side of the home. According to police records a call came in at 4:51 p.m. on April 8 that a man was lying in the street on Hoffman Hill Boulevard between Duncan and Brown Avenue, and that a UPS truck had just crashed into a house.

“Upon investigation the man in the street was determined to be the operator of the UPS truck. He had sustained injuries and was transported to Tacoma General Hospital,” said DuPont Police Chief Ron Goodpaster. Police don’t know what caused the operator of the UPS truck to fall out of the truck. ”After he fell out, the truck went off the roadway, up the curb, ran over a light pole and a small tree and hit the side of the house. In striking the house it knocked a support pillar off the corner of the front porch and struck the corner of the house causing damage,” said Goodpaster.

The police chief said that the operator of the truck was held overnight at Tacoma General for observation, but investigators still don’t know what caused him to fall out of the truck. “We believe his head took a direct hit with the pavement, but we don’t have an update on his condition due to privacy laws,” stated Goodpaster in a phone interview. “As bizarre and as serious as this was, the outcome could have been a lot worse,” said Goodpaster, referring to the number of kids who were outside playing in the neighborhood at the time the accident took place.

The cause of the driver coming out of the vehicle is still under investigation.