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A Pleasanton residence was severely damaged this week when it was struck by an out-of-control tow truck, narrowly avoiding the resident and forcing him to leave his home.
A Pleasanton Police Department spokesperson confirmed that the house on Delucchi Drive in Pleasanton’s Asco neighborhood was too damaged to inhabit after it was hit by a truck at approximately 10 a.m. on Thursday (April 20).
The resident, Mukul Katiyar, said that he is now staying at a hotel after barely avoiding injury during the incident.
“I escaped miraculously by a couple of feet, but the house is severely damaged,” Katiyar told the Weekly.
PPD Sgt. Marty Billdt said that upon investigation, police believe the incident was a “freak incident” that was the result of bad luck, and that no evidence of malice or substance abuse were found to be behind it.
“It sounds like this maintenance crew was trying to load a tractor onto the bed of a tow truck, and the bed was in a downward position, and as they were trying to load this tractor … the weight of the tractor caused the tow truck to get lifted up the front of it, which forced the tow truck in a forward motion causing the driver to lose control, so the driver lost control hit a parked car hit a fence and hit a resident’s house,” Billdt said.
With the home now uninhabitable and PPD having determined the cause of the accident, Billdt said that the next steps toward recourse for Katiyar would be undertaken by the city’s engineering department.
