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

• 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.