Driver saves three Kids in rolling truck

Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com
ROB Scharft has been on the job

delivering linens and uniforms for
three months.

Last Tuesday, he was having a usual working

day, driving a Silveo Linen Services van on
Chesterticld Avenue. He was bound for a client
on East Ist Street.

Scharft saw something in the coragr of his

the driver's window of a stow moving pickup
truck. She was screeming, “Somebody help.
Help me!”

Said: Schartt,
lungs on her...
oun”

The litte girh was about age tour. Her
brother, about age six, was hanging out the
passenger window. He too was panicking. A
third sibling, a boy, also about six, was in the
middle of truck cab desperately doing things to

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“The fite girl had a set of

” said Schartt.

and it stopped,
that othe

Scharts speculated stamlard

gearshift truck was fett in neutral and one oF

the voungsters somchow disodged the parking
brake.

Scharft said the kidy’ father lett them alone
in the truck as he went in the convemence
More.

“ft freaked the crap our of me. TP got the
truck stopped. ‘The father didn’t even say thank
you,” said Schartt.

Police were not called. Afterwards, the
bors’ legs were shaking and gist continued ery-
ing Schartt said the father said the kids were
OK and lett.

“Te was really sad. P started to cry and every-
thing,” said Scharft who is the futher of nwo
girls, ages 3% years and a newborn,

He estimated the truck rolled “a good” six
metres (20 tect) down the sloped parking lor
and towards cars on Chesterticld Avenue.

Scharft continucd working, buta short time

later had to park his van for two hours because
he was shaking and upset. “Twas glad I was
there at the right time,” said Schartt.

ry to make the vehicle stop. The Mazda two-seater track was not
hartt immediately threw his van into park — designed to seat three kids and a driver.
almost. in the busy 3rd) Street and “That really ticked nie off tog,” he said.
Chesterticld intersee
ton,
The 26-year-old) New
Westminster resident
ran to the truck which
was rolling out of the 7-
Eleven parking lot.
“E tried stopping it (at
the front), but TP could:
n't stop it because it was
going too fast down the
hill,” said Scharft.
Another man had also
run to the front of the
truck to help stop it.
Scharft: said he moved
tothe left of the moving,
vehicle. “The little girl
noe grabbed his neck.

NEWS photo Mike Waketiald = “T rafled her out and

ROB Scharft ran to help three panicking youngsters in a then (reached in) and

rolling pickup truck on Tuesday. stuck the truck in gear

eve when he was almost in the intersection at
West dr Street. :
A distraught litte girk was hanging out of while

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