Struck By Incidents
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Florida Trooper Injured in Turnpike Crash in Miami-Dade
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was injured in an early morning crash on the Turnpike in Northwest Miami-Dade Tuesday.
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Mississippi Deputy Hit By Car
It happened this afternoon newar the BP gas station on Highway 80 at Metro Center Mall. Inmates with Hinds County were mowing grass along the mall. Some paper flew out of a car window and the deputy tried to pick it up. A car slammed into the back of another vehicle that was stopped, causing it to hit the deputy. He was taken to the hospital and may have a broken leg.
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Canada: Alberta Mountie Undergoes Surgery After Being Hit by Suspect on ATV on Reserve
An Alberta Mountie is in surgery after being hit by a suspect driving an ATV in a troubled aboriginal community south of Edmonton. RCMP say the constable was responding to reports of shots being fired at a home Sunday on the Louis Bull reserve townsite near Hobbema.
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Nebraska: Driver, Deputy Hit by Truck
A Cass County, Neb., sheriff's deputy and an Omaha woman were injured after being struck by a pickup truck on Interstate 80 during Saturday's snowstorm.
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Minnesota Semi Driver Hits Patrol Car
A Minnesota State Patrol deputy was assisting a motorist on the Interstate 94 roadside when his patrol car was hit by a semitrailer Friday morning in Stearns County, the patrol said.
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Ohio Police Officer Hit By Alleged Drunk Driver
A local woman is facing charges after allegedly hitting a Cuyahoga Falls police officer with her car. Police say Kimberly Stumpf was drunk when she hit the back of a police cruiser at a traffic stop at Northampton Road and West Portage Trail early Sunday morning.
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Wake, NC Deputy, Protected by Vest During November Shootout, Struck by Car
A Wake County sheriff's deputy who escaped serious injury when his armored vest protected him during a shootout that killed a man in Wendell in November was hospitalized Saturday night after a car struck him during a traffic stop in Knightdale, officials said.
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Pennsylvania: Driver Dies in Crash on Closed Philadelphia Bridge
Officials say a motorist ignored bridge closure signs, leading to a fatal crash that also injured at least two construction workers.
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Fleeing Driver Hits, Injures Connecticut Trooper on Route 14
A veteran state trooper received what were believed to be minor injuries after he was struck by a car he had stopped on Route 14 late Friday afternoon.
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Texas Officer Slammed by DWI Suspect on I-10
San Antonio Officer Shawn King was providing a traffic barricade while two of his fellow officers tended to a stalled vehicle along the access road of the 12000 block of I-10 West. That's when police say a suspected drunk driver plowed into the officer's cruiser.