WARE — Authorities have identified the man killed after being struck by a garbage truck on Church Street in Ware on Thursday as Stephen F. Peters, 62, of Hardwick.
Peters was working in his yard when he was struck by the garbage truck after the driver lost control of the vehicle, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.
The driver of the truck was taken to Mary Lane Hospital in Ware to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
The name of the driver was not released by the district attorney’s office, and the cause of the crash remains under investigation by Ware Police and Massachusetts State Police.