INDUSTRY — A big rig careened off the freeway and into a car dealership late Friday, causing about $500,000 worth of damage to new cars at the lot, authorities said.
The crash was reported just after 9:30 p.m. at Puente Hills Ford, 17340 Gale Avenue, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Steven Katz said in a written statement.
A truck driver was driving a car transport truck westbound on the Pomona (60) Freeway when he lost control and the truck went off the freeway, he said.
“The tractor and trailer crashed through the south perimeter fence of the parking lot of Puente Hills Ford, striking 14 new vehicles,” according to the sheriff’s statement.
The truck was not loaded with cars, California Highway Patrol Officer Jose Nunez said.
No one at the dealership was hurt, and the truck driver suffered only minor scraped and bruises, CHP and sheriff’s officials said.
The cause of the crash remained under investigation Saturday, Katz said, however the truck driver had not been cited or arrested in what appeared to be an accident.
The Santa Fe Springs office of the CHP is handling the investigation.