A firefighter was struck and killed, and two other firefighters, plus a Pennsylvania state trooper, were struck and injured when an out-of-control, possibly drunk, driver struck them as they were working another DUI crash on Interstate 76 in Montgomery County Saturday morning.
The emergency responders were out of their vehicles, with two fire trucks blocking the right lane and shoulder, as they investigated a two-car crash on the westbound lanes of the interstate in Lower Merion shortly after 3 a.m., a state trooper at the scene told NBC10. The first crash was not serious, but as one of the trucks from the Belmont Hills Fire Department started to pull away, a woman driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee on the right shoulder rounded one of the trucks and plowed into the first responders, the state trooper said.
Firefighter Tom Royds of the Belmont Hill Fire Co. did not survive the incident.