A van collided with the garbage truck while the truck was stopped on the side of the road and the victim was standing behind it.

"This garage has been basically decimated by a waste disposal truck so it begs the question: 'How the hell did that happen?'"

A 79-year-old woman has died after she was struck by a garbage truck in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, police said.

Authorities said the person was located in an alley at the rear of a building and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The City of London says cleanup work is underway following a diesel fuel spill southeast of the Blackfriars Bridge. 

The crash on Westchester Bourne, north of Highway 401, in Thames Centre occurred at roughly 1 p.m. Tuesday. 

Police say the man was in the "box area" of the garbage truck when he was fatally injured.

Electrical outages are reported in a Penticton neighbourhood due to an accident involving a garbage truck.

A Calgary garbage truck driver called the fire department just before noon Friday, after he noticed his load was on fire.

Man in waste bin suffers minor injuries after being dumped into a Regina garbage truck.