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A London woman is fuming after she says she was misled by city workers when her car was struck by a garbage truck.
Rebekkah Wilkin says she was on her way to work Thursday about 8 a.m., when she stopped behind a garbage truck collecting garbage on Orchard Street, southwest of the Wharncliffe Road and Horton Street intersection.
“I stopped well back of that vehicle, and then the guy just accelerated and reversed back into my car,” she said.
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Video recorded by her car’s dash cam shows Wilkin was parked about 10 metres behind the truck before it began backing up and only came to a stop when it crashed into her car.
Though the crash was bad enough for her, what added insult to injury was the response from the two workers, Wilkin said.
Though eventually both vehicles pulled over and exchanged insurance information, Wilkin said she was told by one of the workers they had reported the crash to police and officers were on their way before they left.
Wilkin said she sat in her vehicle, which was damaged but still driveable, for almost 90 minutes waiting for police to arrive. At that point, she decided to call police to find out how much longer it would take them but she was told no incidents had been reported on the street.
“They were just so chill about it,” she said of the workers. “They laughed and . . . and it’s just so frustrating because it didn’t have to be this bad.
“I had never been in an accident before, so I got a picture of their insurance, but I wasn’t in a good enough state of mind to think to ask them for their supervisor’s name or to get their driver’s licences or names.”
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