The new year almost came in with a bang when a pickup truck narrowly avoided hitting two gas pumps this morning at about 2:30 at the Columbia Sunoco station. A Chevy Colorado LT traveling west on Route 462 reportedly clipped another vehicle at the intersection at Fifteenth Street, then jumped a curb and swerved into the gas station. In the process, the pickup hit and bent a pipe guard next to a gas pump and narrowly missed a second pump as it hit a support post, where it came to rest. The pickup sustained severe front end damage. Both vehicles involved in the accident were towed from the scene.
The pickup shown above narrowly missed two gas pumps at the local Sunoco station but sustained front end damage after hitting a pipe guard and a support post.
The impact of the truck bent this u-shaped pipe guard bollard next to a gas pump. The truck came to rest after hitting the support post next to another pump (in the background, above).
This is a closer view of the support post damaged by the pickup.
Here's another view of the bent pipe guard at the first pump, which is near the entrance to the gas station.