A bicycle lies on the curb of the southbound lane of Naismith Drive after a trash truck struck a bicyclist on Aug. 7, 2014.

After a city garbage truck ran into a bicyclist at the intersection of 21st Street and Naismith Drive Thursday, a man is at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, dispatchers said.

Jeffery Moten, a city employee who was in the garbage truck with several other workers during the time of the collision, said the incident happened like this:

The garbage truck was eastbound on 21st Street, stopped at the stop sign at the intersection of 21st Street and Naismith Drive. When one of his coworkers who was driving the vehicle began to pull forward, the other occupants of the truck noticed a man riding his bicycle southbound on Naismith Drive.

At that point, Moten said, the occupants of the vehicle shouted at the driver.

“We said, ‘hey, watch it!'” Moten said. “Then the truck sort of bumped him and he skid a few feet.”

The man’s bicycle landed in the curb of Naismith Drive, about 10 feet from the garbage truck. The garbage truck was stopped, sticking out about 4 feet into the roadway.

The driver of the vehicle was taken for a routine urinary analysis and another employee came to the scene at around 12:45 p.m. to take over driving duties, Moten said.

Lawrence Police Department spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley said preliminary investigation results determined the collision was caused by driver inattention and the driver of the truck failing to yield to the bicyclist’s right of way.

The victim was released from the hospital Thursday. McKinley said the victim suffered minor injuries and abrasions.