A vehicle has struck a garbage truck worker in Hardin County.
Kentucky State Police Post 4 spokesman Scotty Sharp told The News-Enterprise that Tuesday morning at 7:54, troopers responded after 31-year-old Alexandra Spata, of Elizabethtown, who was driving a Toyota passenger car on Shepherdsville Road, began to pass a garbage truck and the vehicle immediately behind the truck.
While passing the two vehicles, Spata struck one of the garbage workers, 33-year-old Michael Buehner. Police said Buehner was airlifted to a Louisville hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Red River Waste Solutions representative Steve Smith told the newspaper Tuesday afternoon that Buehner was “… doing well, considering …”
Jail records indicate Spata has not been arrested as the incident remains under investigation by state police.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
