A 60-year-old Berkeley man suffered major injuries when a pickup truck he was helping to push on a snowy Tahoe street rolled over him, the California Highway Patrol said.
The accident was reported at 12:20 p.m. Sunday in a neighborhood near Meyers. A Ford F-350 pickup driven by a 73-year-old Vacaville man had started sliding on a hilly section of Mandan Street, and its two passengers got out to push it, with the help of people from other vehicles.
While they were pushing, the truck began rolling backward, and the Berkeley man was run over.
He was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe, where he was in the intensive care unit as of Tuesday.
The previous day, a teenage pedestrian was injured in a crash three blocks away, the CHP said. The 15-year-old South Lake Tahoe girl had been riding with her parents at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday when their Jeep Wrangler slid on an icy street and got stuck in a snowbank near Apache Avenue and Mohican Drive.
While her father was attempting to dig the Jeep out, a pickup truck came over the crest of the hill and started sliding toward them. The girl and her mother left the vehicle and ran toward the roadside; when the pickup hit the Jeep, the girl was pinned between it and the snowbank.
The drivers were able to lift the Jeep off her before an ambulance crew arrived to take her to a hospital.