DALLAS — A North Texas business owner recorded a video Wednesday of a cement truck ramming into another vehicle without stopping at a prominent East Dallas intersection.
Around 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Ben Sharon, owner of the skateboard and graffiti shop Rec Shop, filmed the incident that occurred at the confluence of Garland Road, Grand Avenue and Gaston Avenue, just outside his business.
The intersection is located just south of White Rock Lake, and southwest of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.
"It was pretty crazy to look outside and see that," Sharon told WFAA. "I definitely wasn't expecting it."
The video shows a cement truck bearing an "SRM Concrete" logo moving forward along the road while pushing a small, white car wedged perpendicular to the front of its cab.
After scraping the car along the road for a couple dozen yards, the cement truck eventually stopped when the car came up against a street curb, impeding its process.
Sharon said local police never showed up to the scene, but that workers with Dallas Fire-Rescue did. Sharon said the woman driving the car was shaken up, but that no one was hurt from the incident.
Firefighters drove the woman in the car home from the scene in the very car she had been driving, Sharon said.
SRM Concrete did not respond to WFAA's request for comment or questions about the driver's employment status.
Sharon said the road's configuration is at least partly to blame.
"There's no other intersection like it," he said. "Every direction here has to split into another direction, so it really confuses everybody coming through here."
The "3G intersection" is notorious for car crashes. The Texas Department of Transportation implemented the current layout, which forces drivers in every lane to turn either left or right, to simplify the complicated intersection.
In 2018, neighbors from East Dallas told WFAA they were opposed to the design TXDOT selected for the long-awaited remake of this busy and often dangerous intersection.
Workers finished construction in the fall, meaning drivers will need time to become familiar with the new layout.
But Sharon said nothing has improved at the intersection since the recent improvements, adding that incidents like the one he witnessed Wednesday afternoon are not out of the ordinary.
"It’s not any better," he said. "[It's] maybe worse."