The Phoenix garbage truck driver heard knocking sounds when he was pulling away from his last job of the early morning.

A woman was taken to a hospital as a precaution after police say she was pulled from the back of a garbage truck on Dec. 31 near 19th Avenue and Indian School Road.

A woman is expected to be okay after she was pulled from the back of a garbage truck Tuesday morning in central Phoenix.

A Teaneck man was charged early Tuesday with drunkenly crashing his pickup truck through a McDonald’s in Bergen County and injuring one employee, authorities say. The 38-year-old motorist slammed his vehicle into the McDonald’s on River Street in Hackensack at 3:20 a.m. on New Year’s Eve day, Hackensack Police Chief Michael Antista said.

A pickup truck crashed into a McDonald’s early Tuesday morning, injuring an employee and causing structural damage to the building, officials said.