PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A brick wall collapse in the middle of a block in Cobbs Creek Thursday afternoon destroyed several cars, but no one was injured.
It was around 12:30 p.m. and Veronica Brinkley was ready to head out to her job as a Lyft driver.
"I was in the house getting ready for work and this big sound like a bomb shook the ground and shook our houses. I was terrified," she said.
A two-story brick wall in the 6000 block of Osage Avenue had suddenly blown down in the high winds. Hundreds of bricks crushed her 2019 Nissan Sentra and several other cars. No one was hurt, and Brinkley, on Thanksgiving, had reason to pause.
Cars are crushed under a windblown brick wall collapse in the 6000 block of Osage Avenue. No injuries. pic.twitter.com/jxn4FxAzK7
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November 28, 2019 "All I keep picturing is if I was parking or just getting out or just getting in, that would have been the end of me. So it gives me a lot to think of," she said.
City inspectors were on the scene to direct the cleanup of bricks in the street and to determine why the wall couldn’t withstand the winds.
