Man pinned against guardrail after trucks crash in parking lot

Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007

By Marcie Young and Greg Lacour
Charlotte Observer Staff Writers

A man was pinned against a guardrail early Monday morning when a tractor-trailer in the parking lot of a food distribution company struck the cab of another truck, police said.

Douglas Lynnes, a truck driver from Grand Forks, N.D., was taken by helicopter to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, where he was treated for "some serious lower-body injuries," said Lt. Bobby Grace of the Hickory Police Department.

Lynnes, 38, is expected to recover. The accident happened at about 5:50 a.m. in the parking lot of Institution Food House, on 12th Street Drive N.W. off U.S. 321.

Early on weekday mornings, the lot is filled with more than 100 trucks set to deliver and pick up food orders, Grace said.

The truck that collided with the cab "was in the process of being dispatched," Grace said, and Lynnes was standing behind the cab.


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