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NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports for "Motor Vehicle - Struck-by" Incidents
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Oklahoma Police Officer Killed In Crash After Pushing Man To Safety
An off-duty Department of Defense and Nolanville reserve police officer died in a highway crash Tuesday night, moments after he pushed another man out of the path of an oncoming car.
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One Firefighter Killed and Another Critically Injured in Struck By
Officials this afternoon have revealed the identity of the Columbia firefighter who died Saturday after being struck by a car while responding to a brush fire on I-20. The firefighter named was Chance Hyatt Zobel, 23, a three-year veteran of the fire department with Engine Co. No. 4 stationed at Spears Creek Church Road.
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South Carolina Firefighter Struck and Killed
Richland County Coroner Gary Watts along with Interim Columbia Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins said Sunday that Chance Hyatt Zobel was the Columbia-Richland Firefighter who lost his life in the line of duty. Another firefighter remains in critical condition after a vehicle accident on I-20 Saturday afternoon. Firefighter Larry Kewon Irvin was also struck and is in critical condition at a local hospital.
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Pennsylvania Worker Struck, Killed By SUV In York County
A worker was struck and killed by a vehicle in York Township Friday morning. The accident happened at a Columbia Gas work site in the 2400 block of South George Street, police said. An Isuzu Trooper struck the flagman. George Waltemyer, 85, was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
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Rookie Texas Officer Struck and Killed by Suspected Drunken Driver
Rookie San Antonio, Texas Officer Sergio Antillo was struck and killed by a suspected drunken driver on Friday morning, October 29.
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Two Maryland Highway Workers Killed
Maryland State Police say two men picking up trash on a Charles County median were killed when an SUV went off the highway and hit them.
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Indiana Officer Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver
A Greenfield police officer was killed early Thursday morning when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bicycle on U.S. 40. The crash happened at about 12:30 a.m. a few miles west of Knightstown, police said.
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Washington Tow Truck Driver Killed in Hit and Run
A tow-truck driver was struck and killed on the entrance ramp from Spokane Street to southbound Interstate 5 early Friday while he was working on a vehicle from an earlier collision. The 51-year-old driver, William Anthony "Tony" Padilla, working for GT Towing in Seattle, was kneeling down at the left front side of the disabled vehicle where the ramp meets the freeway when a southbound car lost control in the HOV lane.
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Washington Tow Truck Driver Killed In Hit-And-Run, Suspects Caught
A tow truck driver who was assisting a disabled vehicle on Interstate 5 at Spokane Street was struck and killed in a hit-and-run early Friday morning, the Washington State Patrol said.
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Runaway Bus Kills Ohio EMS Worker
One woman, Sherry Pettit, died and three other people suffered injuries from a runaway Metro Bus at a Bond Hill High School in Cinncinati.