ROCKLAND, Maine — An antique dump truck lost its brakes and plunged into Rockland Harbor on Wednesday morning but the driver managed to escape without injury.
The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. when a worker at Knight’s Marine Service was moving the 1975 truck. The brakes gave out and it traveled over the edge of an embankment and into the harbor next to the Maine State Ferry Service.
The water was about 4 to 5 feet deep at the time of the accident, according to Celia Knight of Knight’s Marine.
The driver, Chris Oliver, managed to get out of the truck through the driver’s-side door and made it out of the water, she said. He was not injured, she said.
Knight said later Wednesday that a crane from Arthur Henry Crane Service in Thomaston removed the truck from the harbor.
Rockland Fire Department and police went to the scene of the mishap. Knight’s Marine placed an absorbent boom in the water to prevent fluids from getting beyond the immediate location of where the truck went in. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection also was sending a technician to the scene, according to Fire Chief Adam Miceli.