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NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports for "Motor Vehicle - Struck-by" Incidents
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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.
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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.
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Maryland Tow Truck Driver, 38, Killed in Glen Burnie Hit and Run
nne Arundel County Police are looking for a driver involved in a hit and run accident that killed a tow truck operator Wednesday morning on Route 100 in Glen Burnie. According to a police statement, tow truck operator James Frederick Schreiber Jr., 38, of the 200 block of Iris Drive in Pasadena was fatally struck while trying to help the driver of a disabled sewage truck. Investigators said he was outside his truck and preparing to tow the disabled vehicle when he was struck by a 1987 to 1995 Nissan Pathfinder, which may have been red.
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Southeast Missouri Officer Killed in Crash
A 28-year-old police officer from the southeast Missouri town of Caruthersville is dead after a suspect crashed into his squad car. Evan Burns died early Tuesday. Pemiscot County Sheriff Tommy Greenwell says deputies spotted a stolen Cadillac Escalade on Interstate 55 about 12:30 a.m., and began a chase. When the SUV left the interstate and went on Highway 84, Burns and another Caruthersville officer, Richard Altice, set up spike strips. The suspect's SUV struck Altice's car then rammed into Burn's car. Burns died on impact.
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Tennessee DOT Help Truck Driver Killed
A tragic event occurred today on Interstate 55 South in West Memphis, Arkansas. TDOT HELP Truck driver Robert Nowicki was fatally injured in an accident as he stopped to assist a motorist. Nowicki had been with the Tennessee Department of Transportation since 2006. His death marks the first death of a TDOT HELP truck driver/operator killed in the line of duty since the program began in 1999.
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UK: Tow Truck Driver Dies After Being Struck in December of 2009
In the United Kingdom, back in December of 2009, Denis Livesley, 60, was loading a crashed Volvo onto his recovery truck on a slip road off the M60, when a Volkswagen Golf skidded on ice and hit him. A tow truck driver was mown down by a runaway car only to be left dying in the road - as other motorists drove round him. Instead of stopping to help, drivers in other cars swerved round Mr Livesley as he lay face down on the inside lane of a slip road on the M60 near Sale, Greater Manchester.
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Massachusetts State Trooper Ellen Engelhardt Dies 8 Years After Being Hit by Drunken Driver
Former Marshfield resident and longtime State Police Trooper Ellen Engelhardt has died. She was 58. Engelhardt sustained a severe brain injury in 2003 when a car driven by an 18-year-old Wayland man slammed into the back of her cruiser in the breakdown lane of Route 25 in Wareham.
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Ohio Deputy Killed in Chase and Crash in Warren County Identified, Suspect Arrested
A deputy was struck and killed trying to stop a suspect being chased by authorities in Warren County early Tuesday morning. Police say Sgt. Brian Dulle, 36, of the Warren County Sheriff's Office was deploying stop sticks to try and stop the suspect around 2 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. 42 and Utica Road in Turtlecreek Township when he was struck by the suspect's vehicle and killed instantly.
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Vehicle in Deadly Warren County Chase Stolen
Police now say the vehicle which struck and killed a Warren County Sheriff's Deputy Tuesday morning had been stolen from a bar in Middletown. Middletown police say the car was stolen from the "Take A Break Lounge" in Middletown.
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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.