CLEARFIELD, Pa. – A tractor-trailer slammed into two houses shortly before dawn Wednesday, clipping one house and then knocking the second off its foundation and shoving it into a third next door.

The driver was trapped in the cab of his truck, which was lodged in one of the basements, but the residents of the three homes were uninjured, police said.

The accident occurred at about 5 a.m. when the driver grazed the first home, then slammed into the second, dragging it an estimated 12 feet from its foundation, police said. The house hit a third house, pushing it off its foundation, as well.

Rescue crews were trying to rescue the driver Wednesday afternoon and stabilize one of the houses. Officials said the driver, whose identity was not released, could not be moved because one of the homes was being supported by the cab of his truck.

“He may have lost his brakes or there may have been some mechanical malfunction,” Lawrence Township Police Sgt. Mark Brooks said. “We won’t know until we investigate the truck itself.”

Debra Harris and her neighbor, Margaret O’Donnell, who live in the damaged homes, said they awoke to loud noise and falling debris.

A service of the Associated Press(AP)