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  • Virginia Crossing Guard Struck and Killed

    A school crossing guard was killed when she was hit by a pickup truck this morning. The crash happened about 7:30 a.m. while the crossing guard was directing traffic in front of Western Branch Primary School. A woman in a full-size pickup was driving east and could not see because of the glare from the sun.

  • Iowa Firefighter Struck and Killed While Directing Traffic

    Michael Collins, a Shelby, Iowa firefighter has been killed while directing traffic around an accident scene on Interstate 80 in western Iowa. Collins was struck by a car around 6:50 p.m. Sunday at the scene of the earlier crash on Interstate 80 just east of the Shelby exit in Pottawattamie County.

  • Iowa Tow Truck Drivers Struck and Killed

    The cause of a crash that killed the four men on Interstate Highway 80 in Poweshiek County, about 50 miles east of Des Moines, Iowa remains unknown, authorities said Wednesday. Towing industry workers said the accident highlighted the need for drivers to pay attention and, when they see people working on the shoulder, get over, as state law requires. Hanifen Towing drivers Jesse J. Inman, 29, of Ankeny and Daniel Walsh, 60, of Des Moines died while trying to help an Illinois man whose semitrailer had broken down. Another truck crashed into the vehicles, killing its driver and the other three men.

  • Ohio Tow Truck Driver Struck and Killed

    The Ohio State Police reported that a passing car on Route 224 in Boardman struck and killed Paul Macejko, a tow truck driver, while he was cleaning the street from an earlier crash on Saturday.

  • Maryland Tow Truck Driver, 38, Killed in Glen Burnie Hit and Run

    nne Arundel County Police are looking for a driver involved in a hit and run accident that killed a tow truck operator Wednesday morning on Route 100 in Glen Burnie. According to a police statement, tow truck operator James Frederick Schreiber Jr., 38, of the 200 block of Iris Drive in Pasadena was fatally struck while trying to help the driver of a disabled sewage truck. Investigators said he was outside his truck and preparing to tow the disabled vehicle when he was struck by a 1987 to 1995 Nissan Pathfinder, which may have been red.

  • Southeast Missouri Officer Killed in Crash

    A 28-year-old police officer from the southeast Missouri town of Caruthersville is dead after a suspect crashed into his squad car. Evan Burns died early Tuesday. Pemiscot County Sheriff Tommy Greenwell says deputies spotted a stolen Cadillac Escalade on Interstate 55 about 12:30 a.m., and began a chase. When the SUV left the interstate and went on Highway 84, Burns and another Caruthersville officer, Richard Altice, set up spike strips. The suspect's SUV struck Altice's car then rammed into Burn's car. Burns died on impact.

  • Tennessee DOT Help Truck Driver Killed

    A tragic event occurred today on Interstate 55 South in West Memphis, Arkansas. TDOT HELP Truck driver Robert Nowicki was fatally injured in an accident as he stopped to assist a motorist. Nowicki had been with the Tennessee Department of Transportation since 2006. His death marks the first death of a TDOT HELP truck driver/operator killed in the line of duty since the program began in 1999.

  • UK: Tow Truck Driver Dies After Being Struck in December of 2009

    In the United Kingdom, back in December of 2009, Denis Livesley, 60, was loading a crashed Volvo onto his recovery truck on a slip road off the M60, when a Volkswagen Golf skidded on ice and hit him. A tow truck driver was mown down by a runaway car only to be left dying in the road - as other motorists drove round him. Instead of stopping to help, drivers in other cars swerved round Mr Livesley as he lay face down on the inside lane of a slip road on the M60 near Sale, Greater Manchester.

  • Massachusetts State Trooper Ellen Engelhardt Dies 8 Years After Being Hit by Drunken Driver

    Former Marshfield resident and longtime State Police Trooper Ellen Engelhardt has died. She was 58. Engelhardt sustained a severe brain injury in 2003 when a car driven by an 18-year-old Wayland man slammed into the back of her cruiser in the breakdown lane of Route 25 in Wareham.

  • Ohio Deputy Killed in Chase and Crash in Warren County Identified, Suspect Arrested

    A deputy was struck and killed trying to stop a suspect being chased by authorities in Warren County early Tuesday morning. Police say Sgt. Brian Dulle, 36, of the Warren County Sheriff's Office was deploying stop sticks to try and stop the suspect around 2 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. 42 and Utica Road in Turtlecreek Township when he was struck by the suspect's vehicle and killed instantly.

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