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Crash sends TXDOT employee to the hospital
By Lynn Proctor Windle Staff Writer
A freeway mishap sent a street worker to the hospital and snarled traffic along U.S. 75 for most of the morning Thursday.
The worker, an employee of a Texas Department of Transportation subcontractor, initially was listed in serious condition, but later upgraded to stable as he was admitted to Medical Center of Plano.
Police said the worker was conscious as he was transported from the scene.
The bobtail truck driver, who hasn’t yet been identified by police, walked away unharmed from the accident, a spokeswoman from his employer said.
The driver worked for South Central Pool Supply located on 10th Street in Plano. The woman said the pool company would not comment further until next week.
At about 9:38 a.m., the bobtail truck hauling pool equipment sideswiped a flatbed truck accompanying a street sweeper. The three-vehicle convoy was parked on the shoulder of northbound U.S. 75 near the East Park Road overpass. The crew was adjusting their equipment, said Officer Rick McDonald, spokesman for Plano Police.
The convoy included two flatbed trucks equipped with barricades called “attenuator assemblies” that were following behind the sweeper vehicle. Mounted on the rear of the trucks, attenuators are designed to protect road crews in the event of a crash.
The worker had stepped between the flatbed trucks. As the bobtail truck bounced off the first truck, it hit the worker and trapped him underneath an attenuator assembly attached to the second truck, police said.
The truck plowed through the guardrail and came to rest on the grassy right-of-way near the service road. The trailer on the bobtail truck was sheared open.
Passing motorists stopped to help others in the street cleaning crew lift the barrier off the injured man, police said.
The Richardson Fire Department’s hazardous materials team was called in to help clean up the resulting diesel fuel spill.
Rescue workers then used saws and cutting torches to untangle the guardrail from the barricade assembly before it could be hauled from the scene.
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