Garbage trucks don't just haul away our rubbish — they break it up and compress it, making room for the huge volumes they collect every day. To do this, they sometimes use a blade that rotates quickly ...

Wild surveillance video shows the garbage truck striking multiple cars in East Harlem, setting off a chain reaction leading to a woman's death.

An East Harlem community came together on Christmas Eve to remember a woman killed early Tuesday morning in a chain-reaction garbage truck crash involving fallen scaffolding.