A teenage girl stepped across a Northeast Philadelphia street Friday afternoon while looking at her phone. A large truck was stopped directly in front of her.
Then it began moving.
The truck pushed the girl to the pavement and rolled over her, leaving her trapped underneath as people outside a nearby jewelry store began waving frantically at the driver.
What happened next was considerably harder to believe: witnesses said the girl got out with only minor scratches and eventually walked home.
Employees at Ivonne Jewelry were outside around the time school was letting out when they saw the collision unfold at Summerdale Avenue and Marcella Street. 6abc reported that surveillance footage showed the girl, wearing a backpack and looking down at her phone, crossing in front of the stopped truck before it started forward.
Under The Truck
Bladimir Gomera, an employee of the jewelry store, immediately began waving at the driver.
Once the truck stopped, Gomera ran toward it and found the girl underneath.
He told 6abc that she said she was fine and that her hair was beneath the truck. Gomera said he saw no blood or obvious injuries.
The witnesses believed the driver had not seen the girl before moving. They repeatedly checked on her afterward and eventually walked her home.
Gomera told the station that she was still holding her phone.
One More Visit
FOX 29 reported that the incident happened shortly before 3 p.m. and described the vehicle seen in the surveillance footage as appearing to be a dump truck.
Gomera told FOX 29 that the driver stayed at the scene for some time. He said the driver returned the following day and left his contact information.
Philadelphia police told FOX 29 that officers had been dispatched to the 800 block of Marcella Street, but nobody was there when they arrived.
FOX 29 also reported that, as of Sunday night, police said no report had been filed and they did not have information showing that the trucking company had contacted them.
The department said the incident remained under investigation.