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NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports for "Motor Vehicle - Struck-by" Incidents
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Memorial For CHP Officer Set For Wednesday
A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer killed after making a Los Angeles freeway traffic stop will be eulogized during a public memorial Wednesday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
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Massachusetts State Trooper Remembered at Funeral in Brockton
Family, friends and thousands of officers on Wednesday attended the funeral for a state police trooper killed in the line of duty. The funeral Mass for Sgt. Douglas Weddleton was held at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Brockton.
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Massachusetts Trooper's Fmily Speaks Out, Driver Posts Bail
The family of a Massachusetts state trooper killed on duty released their first statement on Monday, as a second driver allegedly connected to the incident posted bail.
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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.