Low Cost Towing in Swift Current says one of its operators was injured and one of their heavy-duty tow trucks was damaged while trying to tow a semi that hit the ditch after rain turned to ice on the Trans Canada Tuesday night.

The company says while their operator was working another semi hit their wrecker and the truck he was assisting.

David Thompson is the grandfather of Dakota Lange who was injured in the accident on the Trans Canada while operating a tow truck.

Thompson says the 28-year-old was underneath the semi unhooking his tow-cable and had his legs sticking out towards the highway.

“And he’d got the truck out of the ditch and was just unhooking it. And this semi come past, going too fast and sideswiped the semi he was working on and the trailer apparently run over his legs.”

Thompson says it’s a miracle his legs weren’t broken. Lange was taken to hospital and is badly bruised as well as emotionally shook-up.

Photo Credit: Facebook/Low Cost Towing

Low Cost Towing, in a social media post, says slowing to 60 kilometres per hour and moving over when approaching a tow truck with all their blue and amber lights on is the law.  They say Lange is recovering with his family at his side and that, “Our tow family is shaken and can’t understand how this could happen.”

Road conditions were extreme, and they say this semi unit was travelling too fast for conditions. The company says visibility was not an issue and the accident could be seen for miles and – it should have never happened.

Swift Current Rural RCMP say they are investigating the accident that involved a tow truck driver on Highway #1, near Beverley, Tuesday night around 7:05 p.m.

When the second semi collided with the tow truck and the stuck semi three people were taken to hospital: a passenger in the stuck semi with injuries described as serious but non-life-threatening; the tow truck operator with injuries described as non-life-threatening; and the driver of the stuck semi, as a precaution.