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Struck By Incidents

News stories about struck-by-vehicle incidents involving emergency responders and/or their vehicles.

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  • Pennsylvania Crossing Guard and Student Struck December 17, 2010 · Pennsylvania Other

    A crossing guard and an elementary school student have been taken to hospitals after authorities say they were hit by a pickup truck in western Pennsylvania.

  • Vehicle Strikes, Injures Utah Trooper December 17, 2010 · Utah Law Enforcement

    A Utah Highway Patrol trooper avoided serious injuries when he was struck Thursday evening by a vehicle on Interstate 84.

  • Woman Struck by SUV in Spartanburg County, South Carolina While Calling 911 December 17, 2010 · South Carolina Other

    A woman tried to help victims of a roadside crash by calling for aid but ended up getting hit herself, flying 20 feet in the air.

  • Injured Jackson, Mississippi Officer Identified December 16, 2010 · Mississippi Law Enforcement

    JPD spokeswoman Colendula Green said Officer Almeia Bolden, 23, was standing outside her patrol car assisting a tow truck with a wrecked vehicle around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday.

  • Proper Blocking Saves Lives at Illinois Highway Incident December 16, 2010 · Illinois Fire

    Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Palatine, IL Engine 82 was dispatched for a report of an accident on Southbound Interstate 290/Route 53. On the scene, Engine 82 positioned the apparatus to block the road including the inside shoulder protecting crews working downstream. It was a few minutes later that a vehicle traveling Southbound, too fast for conditions, lost control and struck the engine on the drivers side and was wedged between the engine and the jersey barriers on the inside shoulder. The damage to that vehicle was extensive.

  • Pennsylvania Fire Policeman Injured December 16, 2010 · Pennsylvania Fire Police

    Police say 71-year-old Richard Lease of Hanover was attempting to turn around a 1999 Freightliner School Bus on Route 234 at 7:24 p.m. when the bus struck 63-year-old pedestrian Gary Bullock, a fire policeman who was responding to Livingston and Bower’s accident.

  • Texas Deputy's Car Struck by Wrong-Way Driver December 16, 2010 · Texas Law Enforcement

    A Brazos County constable's deputy was treated and released from St. Joseph Regional Health Center on Wednesday after he was struck by another driver while in his patrol car.

  • Woman Allegedly Tried to Hit Wisconsin Officer With SUV December 16, 2010 · Wisconsin Law Enforcement

    A 32-year-old woman has been arrested after allegedly trying to run an officer over with a stolen police vehicle.

  • Australian Policewoman Struck by Hit-Run Driver on Geelong Ring Road December 15, 2010 · Other Law Enforcement

    A POLICEWOMAN is in hospital after she was struck by a hit-run driver on the Geelong ring road. The Corio police constable, 35, had pulled over a truck for a routine check on a south-bound stretch of the ring road near Ballarat Rd shortly after 1.10pm yesterday when she was hit.

  • Elderly Florida Driver Blacked Out Before Striking Polk Deputy December 15, 2010 · Florida Law Enforcement

    An elderly driver says he blacked out shortly before his vehicle struck and killed a Polk County sheriff's deputy on Sunday.