CINCINNATI — A City of Cincinnati employee has died after a crash on the Norwood Lateral Thursday afternoon, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
The sheriff's office said just before 12:45 p.m., Norwood police requested assistance from the HCSO Traffic Safety Unit for a three-vehicle crash on the Lateral, or SR-562.
According to the sheriff's office, a City of Cincinnati maintenance pickup truck with an attached trailer was driving west on the Lateral at the 1.8 mile marker. Three employees were working on a traffic project.
A Metro bus was driving west on the Lateral, approaching the pickup truck from behind. The bus hit the pickup truck and pushed it forward into the trailer of another pickup truck, the sheriff's office said.
One of the City employees was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, where they later died.
HCSO did not release the identity of the victim.
The Metro bus driver was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center for treatment of injuries. HCSO said it does not know the extent of those injuries.
The crash was just west of I-71 and drivers are being diverted off the Lateral at Ridge Road. The westbound lanes of the Lateral are closed.
