‘Scary and surprising’: Dump truck hit and run shocks Nova Scotia family

A Dartmouth pistillate is speaking retired aft she was the unfortunate of a hit and run past Tuesday.

Katherine Kennedy was driving on Hammonds Plains Road with her 2 children successful the car, erstwhile she felt thing slam into the backmost of her Kia Forte.

To Kennedy’s surprise, the dump truck successful enactment down her had abruptly accelerated, rear-ending her vehicle.

She said it each happened truthful fast.

“Because we were afloat stopped, it jerked our car forward, astir apt 3 feet oregon so,” she said. “I could spot that Deakin was OK due to the fact that helium was beside me, but I couldn’t spot Lewis successful the backmost seat.”

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Thankfully, Kennedy’s sons were uninjured, but 4 days later, they are inactive excessively tense to get successful the car.

“It was scary and surprising,” says Lewis, Kennedy’s youngest.

After the collision, Kennedy pulled implicit and waved astatine the motortruck operator to bash the aforesaid — but instead, helium started driving away.

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