Local tow truck driver implores public to slow down following close call
It was a close call for a local tow truck driver on Saturday.
Tanner Stevenson, who is a tow truck driver based at Lashberg Towing, was hooking his winch to a vehicle in the ditch, and when he started pulling him out, he heard every tow truck driver’s nightmare.
A loud bang, followed by the winched vehicle jerking towards the tow truck driver, hitting him in the shins. Another vehicle collided where his control panel for the winch was as he was towing it out. Stevenson was luckily uninjured in the incident.
“(I ended up with) a little bruise on one of my legs,” he said. “It didn’t hit me very hard, just something enough to alert me, like ‘whoa, something just happened.’”