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NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports for "Motor Vehicle - Struck-by" Incidents
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Two Maryland Highway Workers Killed
Maryland State Police say two men picking up trash on a Charles County median were killed when an SUV went off the highway and hit them.
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Indiana Officer Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver
A Greenfield police officer was killed early Thursday morning when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bicycle on U.S. 40. The crash happened at about 12:30 a.m. a few miles west of Knightstown, police said.
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Washington Tow Truck Driver Killed in Hit and Run
A tow-truck driver was struck and killed on the entrance ramp from Spokane Street to southbound Interstate 5 early Friday while he was working on a vehicle from an earlier collision. The 51-year-old driver, William Anthony "Tony" Padilla, working for GT Towing in Seattle, was kneeling down at the left front side of the disabled vehicle where the ramp meets the freeway when a southbound car lost control in the HOV lane.
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Washington Tow Truck Driver Killed In Hit-And-Run, Suspects Caught
A tow truck driver who was assisting a disabled vehicle on Interstate 5 at Spokane Street was struck and killed in a hit-and-run early Friday morning, the Washington State Patrol said.
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Runaway Bus Kills Ohio EMS Worker
One woman, Sherry Pettit, died and three other people suffered injuries from a runaway Metro Bus at a Bond Hill High School in Cinncinati.
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Michigan Auxiliary Police Officer Struck and Killed on I-94
Lt. Dan Kromer, 54, an auxiliary officer in Taylor for about 20 years, had pulled over onto the shoulder of westbound I-94 at Monroe just before 9 p.m. Tuesday to help a driver with engine trouble when he was struck by a passing vehicle.
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Worker Struck, Killed in Ohio Construction Zone
A construction worker has been struck and killed while on the job along an interstate highway in Ohio. The State Highway Patrol says 41-year-old Randy Roginski was hit by a passing vehicle late Tuesday night. He'd been standing on the right shoulder alongside a single lane of traffic open on Interstate 271 just north of I-77 near Richfield, 17 miles south of Cleveland in northeast Ohio.
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Southern Mississippi Sheriff Dies After Arrest Attempt
A sheriff in southern Mississippi died Wednesday after being struck by a vehicle while trying to make an arrest on a road near the Alabama state line, officials said. George County Sheriff Garry Welford was pronounced dead at 4:23 p.m. after being airlifted to the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile, District Attorney Tony Lawrence said in a news release.
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Wisconsin Adopt a Highway Volunteer Struck, Killed in Brown County
A 70-year-old Adopt a Highway volunteer was struck and killed by a vehicle Wednesday evening U.S. Highway 41 in Brown County, according to the State Patrol. The driver was traveling southbound on Highway 41 when it lost control and fatally struck the 70-year-old man about 6:30 p.m
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Oklahoma Construction Workers Hit, Killed By Car on I-40 Near Yukon
Forty-eight-year-old Salvador Hernandez and his nephew 20-year-old Jose Hernandez were killed by a passing vehicle in a construction zone along I-40 just west of Yukon.