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no driver crushed nine cars as it hurtled down a residential street towards school gates in Kent last week.
The ERF low loader, which belongs to HE Services of Strood, was carrying a mechanical digger. It dragged one mangled car with it as it hit a telegraph pole and crashed through a garden wall.
Only half an hour earlier Southdown Road in Sheerness was jammed with the cars of parents taking their children to Halfway School.
Lollipop lady Angela Green says: "I threw my lollipop in the air and screamed for everyone to get out the way. The driver was running down the hill in an awful state, shouting. His dog was still in the cab." Halfway School headmaster Gerry Wetherell adds: "It's incredible that in all this carnage nobody was hurt, not even the dog."
It is thought that the lorry had been braced in position at the top of the road, known locally as Telegraph Hill, when it started to move. Driver Nick Anse11 had been attempting to unload the digger.
HE Services chairman Hugh Edeleanu says: "We are grateful that no-one was injured. At the moment we are still investigating the incident, but it is looking like a mechanical failure."
The year-old truck went though a full inspection last month; it is now being examined by engineers from the Vehicle Inspectorate.