A garbage truck slammed into a car, sending both vehicles into New York City scaffolding that collapsed onto a 75-year-old ...

Garbage trucks don't just haul away our rubbish — they break it up and compress it, making room for the huge volumes they collect every day. To do this, they sometimes use a blade that rotates quickly ...

The freak chain of events was set in motion when the private sanitation truck driver struck a parked van, pushing it into the scaffolding.

A woman was killed when a garbage truck crashed into a car in East Harlem, which sent scaffolding collapsing into the street, on Tuesday morning, police said.

An East Harlem community came together on Christmas Eve to remember a woman killed early Tuesday morning in a chain-reaction garbage truck crash involving fallen scaffolding.

Wild surveillance video shows the garbage truck striking multiple cars in East Harlem, setting off a chain reaction leading to a woman's death.

All lanes on the inner loop on New Circle Road between Versailles Road and Old Frankfort Pike are back open Monday following the cleanup of a garbage truck the reportedly caught fire. UPDATE: Aug. 11 ...