Loud “boom” startles bank customer when car falls off tow truck

MASON CITY – A tow truck driver apparently returning a repossessed car to the North Iowa Community Credit Union had a nasty accident Friday afternoon.

Onlookers tell NIT that a tow truck driver was returning a car to the North Iowa Community Credit Union (NICCU) on South Federal Avenue Friday afternoon when the car rolled right off the back of the flat-bed truck it was being towed on.

A bank customer who was in the parking lot getting cash from an ATM told NIT that “the car was obviously either not attached at all or not attached correctly, ’cause it rolled off the back and landed in the street.”

The woman told NIT that she heard a very large “boom” and saw the car in the middle of 7th Street, next to Harley Davidson. Harley workers heard the noise as well, and came outside to see what happened.

Cars are routinely towed into the credit union parking lot, as they re-posses them from customers who fail to pay.

“I can only say ‘thank God’ the car didn’t fall of the tow truck on a busy street and hit someone or another car,” another onlooker said. “It seemed extremely dangerous.”

The tow truck driver got out of his truck and went to re-attach the car long enough to drag it into the parking lot.  As he drove into the lot, the front end bumper could be heard dragging on the pavement, making a loud, scraping noise.

“I was shocked,” the woman told NIT.  “I can’t believe they could re-sell that car after all that.  It had to be damaged to some degree.”  The car remained in the NICCU parking lot Sunday.

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