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NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports for "Motor Vehicle - Struck-by" Incidents
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Massacusetts Trooper Struck and Killed on I-95
A Massachusetts state trooper was struck and killed by a passing car early this morning on the highway in Mansfield and two people are facing charges in the crash, State Police said this morning.
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New Jersey Authorities Detail Events That Led to Trooper's Death
The string of events that led to the death of a 29-year-old New Jersey state trooper on Sunday began earlier that morning, when another trooper tried to see if a driver who had pulled over on the Garden State Parkway needed any help, prosecutors said Monday.
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New Jersey State Trooper Who Was Struck in Howell Dies
New Jersey State Police Trooper Marc Castellano has died as a result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident this morning on Interstate 195.
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Kentucky City Worker Struck, Killed By Garbage Truck
Metro police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said a three-person sanitation crew, a driver and two tippers, returned to the Public Works facility on Meriwether around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. The two tippers got out of the truck as they arrived at the facility. The driver did not see one of the tippers and struck her, Mitchell said. Police said the victim was Darlene Brown, 51, of East Burnett Avenue.
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Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Worker Struck, Killed at Work Site
A 57-year-old PennDOT employee was struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle passing through a construction zone in East Hanover Township on Tuesday morning. Thomas R. Allen of Lebanon was a flagger at a shoulder-cutting operation on Gravel Hill Road, just north of Lindley Murray Road, when he was struck by a northbound 1999 Isuzu Amigo
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Slain Kentucky Officer Laid to Rest
A Lexington Police officer who was killed in the line of duty by a hit and run driver last week was laid to rest Tuesday afternoon.
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Indiana Highway Worker Hit on I-94 by Alleged Drunk Driver Dies
The road construction worker injured in a hit-and-run accident on I-94 in Indiana died Sunday. Roger Sadler, 49, of Michigan City, was pronounced dead at 5:40 p.m. Sunday at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
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Kentucky Officer is Struck and Killed
Last week, Lexington police officer Bryan Durman told his wife Brandy that he was concerned because motorists weren't exercising caution when driving near officers conducting police work on the roadside. Durman, 27, was killed by a motorist Thursday while responding to a call on North Limestone. "I think it was a premonition," his mother Margaret Durman said in an interview Friday.
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Utah Deputy Dies in Fall From I-70 Bridge
Just a day after celebrating his 36th birthday, Aguilar was tragically killed Thursday while helping a woman who had crashed on icy Interstate 70. As he waited by the driver's door, another vehicle went out of control, careening toward the officer. Aguliar fell nearly 250 feet off Fish Creek Bridge about 11 p.m. Authorities did know whether he was struck by the vehicle or was trying to get out of the way.
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Texas Tow Truck Driver Dies After Eastland County Wreck
An tow truck driver died Wednesday at a Fort Worth hospital after he was struck by a pickup truck while trying to remove a wrecked pickup on Interstate 20 in Eastland County.