By Steven Symes 
Scary dashcam footage shows the heart pounding moment when a dump truck veers off a road and right into a house. While the video is shocking, key to understanding what happened is to know the driver suffered a medical emergency.
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The accident happened in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey and the footage is going viral. After the dump truck slammed into the house, demolishing it, the driver was trapped in the cab for two hours before first responders could get to him.
Somehow the driver as well as the owner of the house weren’t seriously injured. That alone is a miracle.
In the footage, you see the dump truck driving along a two-lane road when it just gradually crosses the median line, a car coming the opposite direction veering out of its way. Then the large commercial vehicle jumps the curb, hits a power pole and snaps it in two, misses some parked cars, then drives across lawns before hitting the house square on.
Wild dash cam video of dump truck crashing into home in Woodbury Heights, NJ.
— Chris O'Connell (@CoconnellFox29) May 20, 2025
Owner of company says driver had a grand mal seizure before crashing into the home. Driver trapped for two hours. Both driver and homeowner escaped major injury. Home destroyed. @FOX29philly pic.twitter.com/c0QACVPXhe
According to multiple reports, authorities are saying the driver suffered a Grand Mal seizure and lost control of the 73,000 lbs. dump truck. That’s a scary situation which could’ve ended even worse than the awful outcome.
We don’t know anything about the dump truck driver other than he’s named “Timmy” and apparently is a veteran of the business. We’re assuming the driver and his employer had no idea he was at risk for seizures, so the crash was quite the shock.
Our takeaway from this is what we’ve said so many times before: as a driver, you need to be ready for literally anything to happen. The one driver who came across the dump truck going the wrong way was fortunately able to avoid a head-on collision. Had that driver not been alert, he might have been turned into a pancake.
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