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CASEY: Roanoke trash truck sideswipes parked car — who pays?


When the hydraulic grabber arm on a city garbage truck fails to return to its normal resting position after setting down an empty trash barrel, it protrudes from the truck’s passenger side.
And when a trash truck in that state navigates a street with cars parked on both sides, guess what can happen? There’s a good chance it’ll dent, graze and gouge a parked car. And golly, those grabber arms can cause some damage.
Linda Jones of Roanoke learned that lesson — and few others — last week when a city garbage truck did that to her 2016 white Ford Focus. ....

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