Out Of Control Appliance Delivery Truck Slams Into Bethesda Home

This Bray & Scarff delivery truck came careening down a hill and into this Kirby Road home in Bethesda, via Sherri Sloan-Bohinc This Bray & Scarff delivery truck came careening down a hill and into this Kirby Road home in Bethesda, via Sherri Sloan-Bohinc This Bray & Scarff delivery truck came careening down a hill and into this Kirby Road home in Bethesda, via Sherri Sloan-Bohinc This Bray & Scarff delivery truck came careening down a hill and into this Kirby Road home in Bethesda, via Sherri Sloan-Bohinc This Bray & Scarff delivery truck came careening down a hill and into this Kirby Road home in Bethesda, via Sherri Sloan-Bohinc This Bray & Scarff delivery truck came careening down a hill and into this Kirby Road home in Bethesda, via Sherri Sloan-Bohinc This Bray & Scarff delivery truck came careening down a hill and into this Kirby Road home in Bethesda, via Sherri Sloan-Bohinc

Sherri Sloan-Bohinc’s 2-year-old and 4-year-old were playing outside when an unoccupied delivery truck came careening down a hill and into her house on Friday in the Landon Forest neighborhood of Bethesda.

Nobody was hurt in the incident, but it left the family shaken and the home at 6111 Kirby Rd. with significant structural damage.

Just a few moments before the truck crashed through a fence and into the living room, the kids and Sloan-Bohinc’s mother had been watching television there.

“On Friday I was sort of in shock, like how does this happen? It looked like a movie scene,” Sloan-Bohinc said. “Now it’s kind of set in.”

Police are investigating what happened, but it appears the driver of the truck — from appliance and kitchen company Bray & Scarff — mistakenly left the keys in. Sloan-Bohinc said the driver told her that he was making deliveries at the home at 6102 Kirby Rd at around 11:30 a.m. on Friday.

The driver’s partner had just jumped out of the back of the truck to head toward the house, when the truck began moving down the road and down the hill toward Sloan-Bohinc’s home. Police said the truck was moving at about 25 to 30 miles per hour when it crashed through a fence and small retaining wall.

The back bumper of the truck rammed into a corner of the home, sending window glass and drywall flying. Photos provided by Sloan-Bohinc show washing machine equipment jutting out of the back of the truck.

“This is a community. High schoolers drive on our road,” Sloan-Bohinc said. “This truck was out of control. Had one of the tires not caught the retaining wall, it would have shot through the house.”

We reached out to a spokesman with Bray & Scarff and will update this post with any comment from the company. According to the police report, Bray & Scarff was leasing the vehicle from a company called Metro Truck & Tractor Leasing in western Maryland.

Sloan-Bohinc said the driver of the vehicle was apologetic after the incident and was even crying after seeing the aftermath.

The family was told not to occupy the home until an insurance adjustor comes back on Friday to inspect it for structural damage. The truck hit a beam between the first and second floors of the house. Sloan-Bohinc said she’s been cleaning up debris — including shards of crown molding — that’s spread throughout the family room and into the home’s kitchen.

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