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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.
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.
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.