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NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports for "Motor Vehicle - Struck-by" Incidents

• Wisconsin Tow Truck Driver Struck and Killed

  Dan Bobholz, of Allenton, was killed when a Jeep traveling southbound on Highway 41 sideswiped a legally parked Washington County Sheriff's Office squad that was doing traffic direction while Bobholz removed a runoff vehicle from the right ditch. After the Jeep sideswiped the Washington County squad, it started to spin and struck Bobholz while he was on foot loading the runoff vehicle onto his wrecker. Bobholz was then pushed into his wrecker and, as the Jeep rotated away, he fell into a traffic lane of Highway 41 where he was then run over by a semi tractor-trailer traveling past the scene.

• Texas Volunteer Was Struck and Killed at Wildfire

  Texas volunteer firefighter Gregory Simmons, 51, of Eastland apparently died after being struck by a vehicle after he fled a fire truck that was trapped in a wildfire-consumed pasture, a state trooper told The Associated Press on Sunday. Simmons was found on a rural roadside, but investigators are not yet sure if he was hit by a fire truck or car Friday as a 3,000-acre raging fire caused thick, black smoke, senior State Trooper Phillip "Sparky" Dean told AP.

• Texas Tow Truck Driver Struck And Killed On Highway 77

  A tow truck driver was killed along Highway 77 this morning as he was trying to move a wrecked vehicle off the road. 24-year-old Christian Gutierrez was hit by a UPS 18-wheeler as he stood on the side of the road. The UPS driver kept going and later told Department of Public Safety troopers that he did not realize he had hit anyone. Gutierrez was pronounced dead at the scene, charges are pending against the UPS driver.