A KC Disposal trash truck on its side just north of the intersection at Johnson Drive and Caenen Avenue. Image credit history Mike Frizzell.
A trash truck driver escaped major injury right after crashing together Johnson Drive Wednesday afternoon, with the truck tipping in excess of on its facet into the grass of a smaller town park.
Police, firefighters and paramedics were known as to Johnson Travel and Caenen Avenue at 4:46 p.m. on stories of a trash truck crash.
Firefighters arrived to verify that the trash truck was on its facet together Caenen, just north of Johnson Push.
The truck, belonging to KC Disposal, experienced come to a end just over the curb and into the grass at Shawnee’s Caenen Park, just throughout Johnson Drive from the historic Caenen Castle.
At the scene, Shawnee Fireplace Battalion Main Darrin Nelson told the Post that the driver had climbed out of the truck before firefighters arrived.
The driver, only determined as a man in his late 50s, was transported to Overland Park Regional Clinical Heart with small injuries.
It was not immediately obvious which facet of the truck he was driving from when the crash occurred or if he was putting on a seat belt.
A single sergeant and an officer from the Shawnee Law enforcement Department’s Targeted visitors Safety Device responded to examine the crash since it included a professional car or truck.
Police Sergeant Nick Shurmantine told the Submit that the truck was westbound on Johnson Push and turned correct on to northbound Caenen Avenue.
Crews had been inevitably equipped to raise the truck upright. Picture credit score Mike Frizzell.
Shurmantine says he suspects that the truck was likely far too rapid for the flip, and the load may possibly have shifted all through the change, creating the truck to drop on to its facet.
Police are however investigating but say no other autos ended up concerned in the crash.
A tow truck returned the trash truck to its wheels just right after 7 p.m., and Caenen Avenue reopened shortly immediately after 8 p.m.
This was the next incident involving a KC Disposal truck that essential an emergency response on Wednesday.
Firefighters responded to a fireplace in the back again of a KC Disposal truck alongside its route near West 58th Terrace and Westgate Avenue at 3 p.m.
That truck dumped its load of trash onto the road so the hearth would not spread to the truck and could extra conveniently be extinguished.
No accidents ended up documented in the trash fireplace.
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