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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 ...
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]
March 16 – Canada – A van carrying ten daycare children and a teacher collided with a car in Nicolet, Quebec, killing eight children. [1] July 7 – Spain – A bus collided head-on with a truck near Soria, killing 27 and injuring 13. [2] August 28 – Nigeria – Abuja bus crash. A lorry crushed three buses after its brakes failed, rolling ...
The killing of Eddie Irizarry occurred on August 14, 2023, when he was shot by Philadelphia Police Department officer Mark Dial while in his vehicle.. Later on August 14, Philadelphia police told the media that the incident began when officers pulled over a car that was "driving erratically", then as "officers approached" the car, Irizarry "stepped out" of the car "with a knife", which the ...
A man who was found dead on Monday in the wreckage of the tanker truck fire beneath an Interstate 95 overpass in Philadelphia has been identified by his family.
A "disgruntled former employee" opened fire inside a linen rental and laundry business near Philadelphia on Wednesday, killing at least two people and wounding three others, authorities said.
The accident was initially blamed on a shovel falling from the truck onto some wires and causing a short circuit. [6] Eleven days later, sanitation workers went on a strike [7] that would last for more than two months and would bring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to the city on April 4.
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 ...