A tractor-trailer carrying mail crashed into several parked cars and a home on Preston Avenue in Meriden Thursday morning and the family is displaced until the home can be repaired.

Officials said the tractor-trailer hit a van, an SUV and a truck before hitting a home and pushing a tree through a bedroom.

The homeowner said, fortunately, his daughter who sleeps in the bedroom the tree went through was not home when the crash happened, around 4:15 a.m., because she was at work on an overnight shift.

“It sounded like a bomb going off. The house shook,” Aldo Signorello said. Read more