A 66-year-old City of Toronto worker collecting recycling and organics Tuesday in Scarborough’s Malvern neighbourhood was run over by his own vehicle and killed.

Toronto Police were called to Middleport Cres., northwest of Sewells Rd. and Morningside Ave., on Tuesday at 8:35 a.m. after reports that “a garbage truck driver was struck by the truck he was operating,” Toronto Police said on social media .

Police said in an afternoon news release that the operator of the truck was 66 years old and he was out of his vehicle when “it began to roll away and struck the operator.”

The driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the Ministry of Labour was called in to investigate the incident, along with the Toronto Police forensic unit, traffic services and their collision reconstruction team

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