Crime & Safety

U-Haul Truck Stuck In Buckhead Parking Garage Damages Sprinklers

Police are looking for the driver of a U-Haul truck that was wedged into the ceiling of the Ashley Gables Buckhead parking deck Sunday.

ATLANTA, GA β€” Police are looking for the driver of a U-Haul truck that got wedged and stranded in the parking deck of a Buckhead apartment complex and abandoned.

According to an Atlanta Police incident report obtained by Patch the rental box truck became stuck as the vehicle drove further into the parking deck and clearance shrank Sunday at the Ashley Gables Buckhead at 530 East Paces Ferry.

A witness saw the truck hit and drive past a white beam intended to mark vehicle height limit before damaging the sprinkler system and an upstairs gate and sending some piping falling onto cars parked nearby, police said.

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Residents sent videos to CBS 46 Atlanta showing the top of the cargo hold dug into the ceiling of the parking garage with broken pipes exposed and water flooded around it.

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