Man hit by truck
Sisters Amber Everett and Sherena Niccum were northbound on South Curtis Avenue Thursday morning about 11:30 when they saw “something flying across the road,” Sherena said. “My husband said it was a dog. I said, ‘No, it’s a person.’”
They pulled the car over on the side of the road and ran to help the young man lying in the ditch on the west side of the road.
Kevin Lando had run out in front of a northbound truck and been hit. The impact sent him flying through the air back towards the west, where he landed in the ditch. Lando, 18, of Pineville, Mo., was working for Southwest Sanitation and had just picked up a bag of trash on the west side of the road when he attempted to cross the road from behind the truck to pick up a bag on the east side of the road.
John Garrett, 44, of Pea Ridge, was northbound in a black Ford ranger when he saw a man run out from behind the garbage truck. He told police he attempted to stop, but skidded into him.
David Still, 63, of Pineville, Mo., was the driver of the garbage truck. He said he had stopped to pick up trash and, in the mirror, saw Kevin “flying through the air.”
Pea Ridge Ambulance medical personnel tended to Lando on the scene then transported him to Northwest Medical Center, Bentonville.
By Tuesday, April 29, Lando was home, according to Still, who said Lando was transferred four times — from Northwest to Mercy, then to Cox in Springfield, then to Mercy in Springfield. Still said Lando has a broken nose, stitches in his mouth, two broken legs, two torn ACLs and a broken pelvis. He said it is anticipated it will take nine to 12 months before he can return to work.