Contractor's truck spews cement onto parked car, Long Beach officials say
West Elementary School suffered some broken windows and some cosmetic damage from a malfunctioning cement truck that also broke car windows Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Darry Albright of Surf Glass came to repair the broken glass in Long Beach. Credit: Jim Staubitser
A cement truck in Long Beach malfunctioned Wednesday morning, spewing cement and breaking windows on a parked car.
The cement truck for Farmingville-based Gomez Cement Contractor was working in the city's West End at Maryland and West Park avenues, near West Elementary, when the truck began to malfunction, city officials said.
The truck began projecting cement onto a nearby parked car and into the street at about 9:10 a.m. No injuries were reported.
The cement was cleaned up by 11:30 a.m., officials said.
John Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.
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