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.