2 construction workers injured after being struck by car in Royalton

ROYALTON – Two construction workers were taken to the hospital after getting hit by a car on Thursday afternoon, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said.

A driver of a 2013 Chrysler sedan, 59-year-old Darrin Moreland of Middleport, was westbound on State Road at 2:28 p.m. when the vehicle moved to the north road shoulder. The sedan then struck a water tanker truck where it was parked, unoccupied, on the road shoulder, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The sedan continued down the right side of the water tanker truck and then hit a construction worker, 24-year-old Zackary Brown of Newfane, who was seated on the grass next to the truck. The sedan then made contact with a pump trailer that was parked on the grass north of the truck.

A second construction worker, 23-year-old Sheldon Gardner of Little Genesee, who was standing on the trailer was knocked down onto the floorboard of the trailer. The sedan came to rest between the water tanker truck and the pump trailer, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

The driver of the sedan wasn’t injured. Brown, the construction worker who was seated in the grass, was flown by Mercy Flight to ECMC for treatment for neck and back pain.

Gardner, the other construction worker on the trailer, was taken by ambulance to ECMC for similar complaints of pain.

An investigation by the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office is continuing.