Oct 17, 2022

Hutchinson man hospitalized after trash truck overturns

Posted Oct 17, 2022 10:30 PM

KINGMAN COUNTY—A Hutchinson man was injured in an accident just after 2 p.m. Monday in Kingman County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2009 Sterling trash truck driven by Christian A. Reveles Medina, 24, Hutchinson, was northbound on NW 170th Avenue at 10th Street.

The truck met another large truck. The trash truck moved to the right and crossed the fog line. The passenger side tires entered the east ditch and the driver overcorrected. The truck entered west ditch and the driver overcorrected again and the truck overturned.  The truck came to rest on the passenger side in the middle of the road.

EMS transported Reveles Medina to a Wichita hospital. He was properly restrained, according to the KHP.