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

• Off Duty VT Firefighter Struck and Killed While Rendering Aid

  Last night December 27,2009,a Vermont Volunteer Firefighter was killed while helping at the scene of a car crash. There was heavy fog and the roads were icy when a car slid off the road into a ditch.

• Missouri trooper Struck by Motorist on I-44 Dies

  A trooper with the Missouri State Highway Patrol was killed on Christmas after being struck by a vehicle along I-44 in Eureka.

• South Carolina Tow Truck Driver Struck and Killed

  A Columbia man faces several charges, including felony driving under the influence, after a chain-reaction traffic accident early Sunday that killed a tow truck operator.

• Massachusetts Highway Worker Killed

  State police say one person has died and at least one other person has been hospitalized after a car crash at a work site on Route 3 in Chelmsford. It happened in the northbound lanes just south of Exit 32 around 10:30 a.m. Two vehicles and a work crew were involved the accident.