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Man taken to Toronto hospital after being trapped under pick-up truck

KAWARTHA LAKES-A local man was taken to a Toronto hospital after being trapped under a pick-up truck in Lindsay.

City of Kawartha Lakes Police were called to a Lindsay home with Kawartha Lakes Fire Rescue Service and Kawartha Lakes Paramedic Service on May 12th at 5:38pm in response to the report of a man being trapped under a pickup truck.

When first responders arrived at the home, they learned that the man had been freed from under the truck. The man was taken to Ross Memorial Hospital and later transported to a Toronto area hospital for medical treatment.

Witnesses at the home reported to the investigating officer that the driver of the pickup truck had inadvertently reversed over a man who was standing near the back of the vehicle in the driveway of the home.

No names have been released.

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Pamela Vanmeer
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Pamela VanMeer is a two time winner of the prestigious Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Award. Her investigative reports on abuse in Long Term Care Homes garnered international attention for the issue and won the Ron Laidlaw Award. She is a former reporter and anchor at CHEX News, now Global Peterborough and helped launch the New CHEX Daily, a daily half hour talk show. While at CHCH News in Hamilton she covered some of the biggest news stories of the day.

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