crash_reports: 1900000952

On Tuesday September 17th, 2019 at approximately 1411 hours I responded to the intersection of Fairfield Street and Bolton Road for a city vehicle accident. At the time, the weather conditions were clear and the road surface was dry. Fairfield Street and Bolton Road are both public ways in the City of Newton. Upon arrival I observed a City of Newton public works truck MA REG: M68227 front end crashed into a utility pole and small tree. The truck also had a trailer attached MA REG: M67846. The operator of the city vehicle identified as Rodolfo Marquez (S77096565) stated the vehicle was parked on the corner of Fairfield Street at Bolton Road with its hand break activated and a chock block under the rear right tire. Rodolfo stated he was attempting to load a bobcat onto the trailer when the truck must have released from the hand brake and crashed head on into a utility pole and small tree. The area in which the truck was parked on and point of impact are both on a downward hill. The impact from the truck into the utility pole caused a cable wire that was afixed to 36 Fairfield Street to be ripped from the house causing minor damage to the home. The city tree and utility pole also had minor damage. I spoke to the homeowner of 36 Fairfield Street identified as Nicholas Morgan. Nicholas was made aware of the damage to his house and damage to the front lawn from the vehicles tires. No injuries were reported and several photographs were taken of the vehicle and the damage to the house, lawn, city tree and utility pole. Verizon was notified to respond for a down cable wire. Todys responded and took posession of the vehicle.