Lawsuit Filed in Trash Truck Accident

LONGVIEW — There’s new information in a case involving a woman who collided with a trash truck in Longview last summer. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, the man who was seriously hurt in that wreck is suing the driver for medical compensation. The driver is denying claims in the lawsuit. Susan Michelle Skinner drove her car into the back of a trash truck, pinning Dennis Montgomery between the two vehicles. One of his legs had to be amputated. Police say Skinner had an open container of alcohol as well as a glass pipe typically associated with meth in the car at the time of that accident.