Nampa, ID — A patrol officer’s car was hit by a cement truck in an accident in Nampa this past Wednesday, October 28, 2015. A report from the Idaho State Police identified Canyon County Sheriff’s Deputy Minshall as the officer involved in this accident, but his first name wasn’t given.
The accident happened at about 7:45 a.m. that morning, at the intersection of North 64th Street and Flamingo Avenue.
The ISP reported that Deputy Minshall was driving his patrol car east along Flamingo that morning, responding to an accident scene, when he collided with a cement truck driven by 39-year-old Daniel Carreno.
Allegedly, Carreno was typing to turn onto Flamingo Avenue right as Minshall’s patrol car was passing by. The cement truck was hauling two trailers and Minshall’s patrol car hit the second one.
It looks like the ISP are continuing to investigate this, but they didn’t mention anything about injuries.
Map of the Accident
View of the Road
Commentary:
Like the report said earlier, I’m not sure if this accident actually involved any injuries or not. However, a typical cement truck weighs many times more than a standard police patrol car, so I’ll be a little surprised if this trooper escaped without a scratch.
But that touches on an interesting area of the law: traffic accidents and work-related accidents. Normally, a worker who’s injured on the job would take up a claim with their workers’ compensation benefits program and leave it at that. Whatever benefits he qualifies for, that’s that.
But if an accident is caused in the line of duty by an outside sources, aka, a third party, then the law typically allows the injured party to hold the negligent party accountable. To put it more bluntly, employees have rights, too, and just because they were in an accident doesn’t mean workers’ comp benefits are always the only option available to them.
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