Runaway Garbage Truck Rolls Into Dallas Home and Nearly Kills Elderly Couple Living There
A disabled city sanitation truck should have made it quietly to a repair yard. Instead, it ended up inside someone’s home.
On June 26, 2026, at around 2:20 PM, a Dallas city garbage truck broke loose while being hauled by a third-party towing company and rolled directly into a residential home in the Lake Highlands neighborhood. An elderly couple was inside when it happened.
This was not a collision in traffic. This was a 33,000-pound vehicle that simply got away and had nowhere to go but through someone’s wall.
What Happened on Thunderbird Lane
The truck was already disabled before any of this started. It was not in active service that afternoon. A private company had been contracted to transport it, likely to a maintenance facility…