Garbage Truck That Hit Pedestrian was Not County’s

UPDATE (2:40 p.m.)—The garbage truck that hit a pedestrian Friday morning was not one of a county-contracted waste management vehicle, Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works spokesman Matt Diehl said.

“I don’t know all the specifics of the situation, but I can confirm it wasn’t any of our trucks,” Diehl said.

A trash truck hit a man Friday morning in Harwood, according to Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman Chief Michael Cox.

Emergency crews reportedly responded around 8:35 a.m. Friday to the 4400 block of Flanders Lane in Harwood where they found a man with serious, but not life-threatening injuries.

The injured man, believed to be in his 20s, was driven in an ambulance to the Prince George’s Trauma Center in Cheverly, Cox said.

Diehl said it’s possible the driver was with a separate business that provides trash-removal services on private roads.

The county-contracted companies that handle trash in south county are Gunthers Trash and Bates Trucking Trash Removal.

Odenton Patch editor Tim Lemke contributed to this article.