Date: Fri 23-Feb-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

Quick Words:

garbage-truck-police

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Rolling Garbage Truck Pins Driver

Police report the rescue of a garbage truck driver whose truck had flipped

over, pinning his leg beneath it.

Police said they learned just before 10 am on February 15 that truck driver

Brendon Conway, 31, of Woodbury, who was collecting garbage on a commercial

route, had attempted to climb the steep, snow-covered driveway of the

Fairfield County Fish and Game Club off Hammertown Road when the full-sized

truck skidded into an embankment, ejected Conway through a window, and rolled

over onto its side, trapping Conway's leg beneath it.

The truck is used by Diversified Waste Disposal, Inc, of Danbury.

After the truck was lifted off Conway's leg with the use of inflatable

airbags, Conway was found to have cuts and a leg injury, police said.

Ambulance personnel transported him to Danbury Hospital for treatment.

When the truck rolled over, about 40 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from it,

according to Newtown Fire Marshal George Lockwood. Botsford firefighters

contained the hazardous material spill and the state Department of

Environmental Protection was called to supervise, he said.

Besides the Newtown Police, those participating in the rescue were the Monroe

Police, the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps, The United Fire Company of

Botsford, The Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company, the Stepney

Volunteer Fire Department, the Monroe Volunteer Fire Department and the

Stevenson Volunteer Fire Department. Mr Lockwood said 22 fire vehicles

responded to the call.

The property where the incident occurred is on the Newtown-Monroe town line.

"He was lucky," Mr Lockwood said of Mr Conway who suffered relatively minor

injuries considering the scope of the accident.