Crash with garbage truck injures one in Clark County

May 20, 2023

A driver was injured after a four-vehicle crash involving a garbage truck Tuesday morning in the Five Corners area.

Clark County sheriff’s deputies responded at 6:25 a.m. to Northeast Padden Parkway just west of 94th Avenue.

A Ford F-150 pickup and a GMC work truck were parked on the shoulder of the road in the 8700 block of Padden Parkway. A flagging crew was outside the Ford and beginning to set up cones for construction in the area. A driver was inside the GMC truck, according to a sheriff’s office news release.

Just east of the parked vehicles, a Waste Connections garbage truck was traveling west. The driver of the garbage truck said he saw someone from the flagging crew in the road, and he began to change lanes to avoid them. The driver said he did not see a Dodge Dart next to him, and the truck struck the Dodge, the sheriff’s office said.

The Dodge became wrapped around the front bumper of the garbage truck and both vehicles went to the right. The garbage truck pushed the Dodge into the GMC work truck. The GMC was pushed off the road and rolled onto its side in a ditch. The Dodge came to rest, according to the news release.

The garbage truck then lightly struck the Ford, and the flaggers ran to avoid the crash. The drivers of the garbage truck and GMC, along with the flaggers, were uninjured, according to the sheriff’s office.

The driver of the Dodge was trapped, and first responders extricated him from his vehicle. He was taken to a hospital to be evaluated, but investigators said he did not appear to be significantly injured.

The road was closed for several hours and reopened shortly before 9 a.m., the news release states.