APD officers, an ambulance, and the Potter County Fire Department and Sheriff's Office responded to the City of Amarillo facility on an accident involving a private solid waste transport company vehicle and one of the company's drivers. Three drivers and three trucks from Waste Wranglers were unloading at the landfill. One of the drivers was out of the tractor trailer type vehicle, and had assisted another truck that was stuck while unloading. After the truck was freed, the driver backed up. That driver believed that the assisting driver was up in a truck, but he was still behind the vehicle. His trailer struck Michael Shawn Lightfoot WM 53, of Amarillo. Lightfoot was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, and an autopsy has been ordered. APD Traffic Investigations is at the scene. The driver involved has been interviewed and released.
