Update:  The female driver of a garbage truck lost part of a leg after surgeons needed to amputate the limb to extricate her from being trapped under the truck’s cab Friday.

Police said Gwendolyn Hightower, 36, of Miami, flipped the truck while making a turn in a residential area at 140th Avenue and Taft Street.It took firefighters and surgeons one hour and 20 minutes to free Hightower, who is now in critical condition at Hollywood’s Memorial Regional Hospital.

The female driver of a garbage truck was extricated after about an hour underneath the cab of the truck after it flipped over while making a turn in a residential area at 140th Avenue and Taft Street.Surgeons were called to the scene to assess if they needed to perform an amputation on the woman’s leg to free her from under the cab, but there has been no confirmation if they did have to amputate her limb, Local 10 reported.A large tow truck was brought in to lift the truck up off of the woman and wood blocks were placed under the cab to pull the truck up in order to allow rescue teams to extricate her from underneath the cab.

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