The driver of a Dodge pick-up truck was wedged beneath his truck’s dashboard after a crash on the old Conklin road late last Tuesday afternoon between his truck and a logging truck.
The 40-year old driver was travelling southbound on the narrow road 60 kilometres north of Lac La Biche, when he took a corner too fast, say Lac La Biche RCMP.
Sliding on the icy road, the truck met the logging truck coming in the opposite direction, taking off the whole driver’s side of the Dodge truck.
With the dashboard crushing both his legs, the Bonnyville man, who had been working up north and was heading home for the holidays, had both of his femurs broken. He was trapped inside the vehicle until emergency workers arrived on the scene.
With no space for firetrucks from Grassland and Plamondon to turn around on the narrow road, firefighters had to turn the firetruck around at a clearing two kilometres away from the crash.
After being carefully taken out of the truck, the man was eventually transported by STARS ambulance to Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra hospital.
The logging truck was empty at the time of the crash near the 29–kilometre marker and Lac La Biche RCMP believe speed was a factor, along with bad road conditions.
The 63-year old logging truck driver from British Columbia, who was working in the area, was not injured.
