Officer hurt in Yellowhead Trail mishap
edmontonjournal.com
Published: Saturday, November 21, 2009
EDMONTON - Poor driving conditions during Edmonton's first snowy day in November were partly to blame for a crash that sent a police officer to hospital.
The constable was at the scene of a Saturday afternoon crash, on the Yellowhead Trail at the base of the Victoria Trail on-ramp, when she was hit by a truck coming down the ramp at about 3:45 p.m.
The cars involved in the first collision had been towed away, and the officer was grabbing documents from her trunk when the driver of the small pickup lost control and crashed into the back of her cruiser, said traffic section Sgt. Dave Thomson.
"She was thrown a number of metres," Thomson said.
Frozen slush made the ramp slippery and investigators said poor driving conditions likely played a role in the crash.
The constable, a north division officer with 10 years experience, was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
She was reportedly talking when she was transported from the crash scene.
The crashes were two of more than 200 that had police scrambling in a 24-hour period between Friday and Saturday night.
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