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NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports for "Motor Vehicle - Struck-by" Incidents
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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.
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Update on Pennsylvania Fire Police LODD
A Clinton County fire police officer was struck and killed Friday while working to control traffic around the scene of a crash that seriously injured an area man on Lusk Run Road, about two miles from Central Mountain High School. State police in Lamar said Donald G. Mellot, 62, of Flemington was struck in the road's eastbound lane about 1:30 p.m. by a car driven by Harold L. Moore Jr., 72, of Beech Creek.
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Pennsylvania Fire Police Officer Struck and Killed
A veteran fire policeman was tragically killed Friday while controlling traffic at the scene of a crash along Lusk Run Road, about a two miles east of Central Mountain High School. Donald G. Mellott, 62, of Flemington, a member of the Clinton County Fire Police Association, was hit by a silver Subaru driven by Harold Moore, 72, of Beech Creek, around 1:30 p.m., state police confirmed.
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Update-Kansas Chief Killed in Backing Accident
The fire chief of Linn Valley was killed in an accident at the Linn Valley Lakes Fire Department on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the fire truck driver was attempting to back up the truck but accidentally pinned Chief Stanley Giles, 69, in between the truck and another vehicle, killing him.
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Kansas Chief Killed In Station Backing Incident
It is reported that the Linn Valley, KS Fire Chief has been killed in the Line of Duty. Initial reports are that he died after being struck in a fire house apparatus backing accident, late this afternoon, February 10, 2010.
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Pennsylvania Tow Truck Driver Victim of Turnpike Accident
A tow truck driver attending to a crash scene on the Pennsylvania Turnpike was struck and killed by an out-of-control tractor-trailer Sunday night in Mt. Pleasant Township. Michael T. Pegg, 39, of Hempfield, an employee of Weavertown Towing Garage Services in Hunker, died at the scene of the accident in the westbound lanes of the turnpike, just 4.5 miles west of the Donegal Interchange.