Runaway garbage truck slams into 5 cars

Tuesday, August 4, 2015
A runaway garbage truck with no one behind the wheel smashed into at least five cars.

The video shows the crash from Friday near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Police say the garbage truck driver stepped out of the truck to talk with a supervisor and somehow the brakes "disengaged."

The truck then rolled out of control down a hill.

You can see two Waste Management workers chase after the truck, but were nowhere close to catching it.
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