Struck By Incidents
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Connecticut Trooper Struck
Tuesday night a State Trooper on construction detail was hit on the Merritt Parkway ; now drivers are hoping the accident will bring notice so that conditions will improve.
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Man Arrested After Trying to Run Over Texas Police Officer
A man has been charged with both Attempted Capital Murder and Driving While Intoxicated after trying to run over a police officer Sunday morning.
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Ohio Trooper Hit by Vehicle While Investigating Crash
An Ohio State Trooper has been hit by a vehicle while investigating a crash.
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Manchester, New Hampshire Fire Truck Struck
A tractor-trailer skidded into a Manchester fire truck that was on the scene of an accident at 1:25 a.m. at a multiple vehicle crash on I-93. Two fire trucks were sent to the scene, one to use as a buffer to protect firefighters at the crash site. As the firefighters were checking on people involved in the crashes, a second tractor-trailer truck, that was attempting to avoid the wreckage, skidded into Engine 8.
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Texas, Officer Not Injured When Semi hits Police Car
An unoccupied Weatherford police car was demolished early Saturday when it was hit by an 18-wheeler at the scene of an earlier wreck on Interstate 20.
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Oregon Fire Truck Involved in Crash While Responding to Different Accident
A Winston-Dillard Fire District truck was involved in a crash while it was at the scene of a separate accident.
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Two People Hospitalized After Series of Accidents on Oregon 42 Near Winston
A series of accidents involving a fire engine, a semi-truck, a car and a pedestrian sent two people to the hospital Wednesday night east of Winston.
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Kentucky Deputy Kills Suspect During Dragging Incident
A man is dead and a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy injured after an incident early Wednesday morning. According to police, two deputies were serving an emergency protective order at a home, but no one answered the door. Sheriff's Office spokesman Carl Yates said about 4 a.m., two deputies noticed a man walking down the street with a gas can in the 3300 block of Powell Avenue. When they questioned the man, Yates said the man got into his car and tried to leave. One of the deputies approached and tried to grab the man. They began fighting over the steering wheel and the keys to the car and the deputy was kind of half in the car, half out of it and and being drug around the corner. At some point in the struggle, the deputy fired one shot and the suspect was killed.
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Convicted Drunken Driver Almost Hits Wisconsin Sheriff's Deputy
A Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy narrowly escaped being hit by a convicted drunken driver over the weekend.
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Florida: After Passing Emergency Vehicle, Driver Finds Devil in the Details
Motrin and Advil are known generically as ibuprofen, and you can buy the drug at any supermarket. But there’s a devil in the details, as a West Palm Beach man learned when he was stopped by Palm Beach police on Sunday. The driver, who told an officer he was in town looking for a job at a hotel or restaurant, made a mistake by passing an emergency vehicle on South County Road without slowing down. It’s called Florida’s “Move Over” law, and it requires you to either change lanes on a multi-lane road or slow to 20 mph under the speed limit.