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April 13 – United States – A FedEx truck with two trailers driving on a freeway in Orland, California drove over a median and entered opposite traffic, striking a sedan which then collided with a chartered bus carrying high school students for a field trip and ignited, killing 10. [169] April 13 – Mexico – Acayucan bus crash.
Brian French was nearly crushed to death by a trash collection truck during a routine garbage run last winter. French was forced to react much faster than anyone should ever have to at 4 a.m ...
Around 8:37 a.m. a Peterbilt box truck sideswiped the parked van, causing the truck to lose control, said Rodrigo Jimenez, public information officer for the California Highway Patrol.
The deaths of Cole and Walker proved to be the catalyst for the Memphis sanitation strike. On February 11, ten days after their deaths, union Local 1733 held a strike meeting where over 400 workers complained that the city refused to provide decent wages and working conditions. The workers wanted immediate action but the city refused. [7]
Witnesses reported sanitation workers using water hoses and leaf blowers to drive people off the streets. Several harm-reduction advocates refused an order by police to disperse. Of around 75 people who were counted living on the block, the Parker administration said 59 were placed in a shelter or treatment since April, with 31 ...
A garbage truck worker was hit and killed after the very truck he was riding on hit him, according to a Tallahassee Police Department social media post.. The truck was stopped collecting trash in ...
Jason Keel Sweeney (July 29, 1986 – May 30, 2003) was a construction worker from Fishtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who at the age of 16 was murdered by four teenagers for his paycheck on May 30, 2003. The perpetrators included a girl he was dating and his best friend since childhood.