A city salt truck lost control and flipped onto its side, spilling a load onto a residential lawn at the corner of 108th Avenue and Tamarack Lane on Sunday.
Residents said there was black ice throughout the area at the time, around 10 a.m., and police confirmed there were several minor accidents and vehicles going out of control.
Residents helped the salt truck driver to get out of his vehicle through the passenger door.
He was not injured, according to city spokesman Fred Armstrong, and the truck was righted, having sustained minor damage.
Armstrong said the city received numerous requests for road service from the public due to frost, and crews were brining and salting the roads in the Albion and Kanaka neighborhoods when the accident took place.
Armstrong said the roads were slippery, but the accident occurred in an area where there was ice built up on the road, possibly from people having washed their vehicles on the weekend.
He said it was sunny, but the temperatures were below freezing that night. In conditions when temperatures are dropping below zero, people should take their vehicles to a commercial car wash, Armstrong advised.
Tamarack area residents took salt from the flipped truck and spread it onto the road.