two parked constabulary carsJuneau Police Department vehicles successful downtown Juneau connected June 13, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)

A Juneau man died successful a Seattle infirmary aft a City and Borough of Juneau worker driving a city-owned motortruck struck him arsenic he was lying successful nan drive-through lane of a slope successful nan Mendenhall Valley, police and metropolis officials said.

Police identified nan man who died arsenic 38-year-old Armando Sanchez. The incident happened early successful nan greeting of June 1 astatine True North Federal Credit Union connected Postal Way.

Juneau Police Department spokesperson Erann Kalwara said nan driver told constabulary he did not recognize Sanchez was location connected nan crushed erstwhile nan beforehand bumper and tyre struck him. 

“The man who was operating nan Chevy truck, we recovered that he was not impaired, he was not injured,” she said. “There was nary narration betwixt nan personification who was struck by nan motortruck and nan personification who was operating nan truck.”

Immediately aft nan incident, Sanchez could beryllium up and talk and had immoderate abrasions connected his back, according to police. He was brought to Bartlett Regional Hospital that time and was later medevaced to Seattle for further treatment. 

Police said they learned Sanchez had died connected Tuesday. Kalwara said she did not instantly cognize what time he died and aliases if his decease was owed to injuries from nan collision. 

“We’re going to beryllium waiting for autopsy results. So there’s a assortment of accusation that we’re still collecting to thief pinch nan investigation to find pinch immoderate finality what occurred,” she said. 

The metropolis worker driving nan motortruck has not been identified by constabulary and has not been charged. City Manager Katie Koester told KTOO that nan metropolis is conducting an soul investigation of nan incident. 

Kalwara said nan constabulary are besides continuing to analyse what happened.