Road Work Accidents Page #2
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
Worker Injured In Accident (deputies are still investigating a mid-morning accident that injured a worker standing on the side of the road – the accident happened around 9:00 a.m. along Highway 43 – county dispatcher says an 18-wheeler was in the middle of unloading when a passer-by in an SUV hit one of the workers)
Highway worker struck by truck, thrown 21 feet (a town highway worker was knocked 21 feet into the air when he was struck by a runaway recycling truck – he was cleaning leaves out of a drainage ditch when the accident occurred about 10:50 a.m. – a garbage truck and recycling truck were working in tandem – they had both stopped to pick up bags – the recycling truck apparently slipped out of gear and started rolling backward – he was operating a leaf-collecting vacuum from a parked street sweeper nearby at the side of the road, had his back to the trucks and couldn’t hear them)
Thai Worker Hit By Car At Road Construction Site (a car driven by a woman ploughed through a construction barricade and ran into the 40-year-old worker who suffered hand and back injuries)
Men injured on Swampscott Road job site (a man working injured a leg after an accident involving a piece of equipment, possibly a front-end loader – no other details yet)
Highway worker injured when hit by vehicle (a highway worker, 26, for a private company was struck by a vehicle when she was placing construction barriers – she had entered the highway and placed a barrel in the travel lane – on her way back to the roadway, she entered the path of a passing vehicle and was struck)
5 hurt when van hits IDOT truck on Bishop Ford (five people, including three Illinois Department of Transportation workers, were injured when a contractor’s van rear-ended an IDOT truck – about 9 a.m., the highway workers were riding in the truck retrieving orange safety cones that had been set out earlier for a bridge project that had been canceled because of snow squalls in the area)
Worker killed in road construction accident (a Department of Transportation employee was killed when he stepped in front of a moving 25-ton roller – worker, 49, was working at a road construction site when the accident occurred – witnesses said he stepped in the machine’s path as it was backing up – the machine, known as a pneumatic roller, compacts pavement)
Worker injured on construction site (a worker in the process of paving a parking lot was seriously injured when he was run over by a dump truck)
DOT worker hit by driver reportedly drag racing (a Department of Transportation worker suffered minor injuries this morning when a motorist lost control, allegedly while drag racing through a Ga. 400 work zone with another vehicle, and struck the pickup truck in which the worker was sitting – the worker was injured when one of the racing vehicles clipped a tractor-trailer, careened onto the shoulder and pushed the worker’s pickup truck into traffic — where it was struck by another vehicle that was not involved in the race)
Caltran Worker Injured In Hit-And-Run (a worker was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident – a trailer on the back of a landscaping truck broke loose – worker was sent to the hospital with major injuries, including a broken leg)
Worker injured in Dan Ryan hit-and-run (a construction worker was slightly injured on the Dan Ryan Expressway when struck by a vehicle, which then fled the scene – employee suffered minor injuries and refused medical treatment at the scene)
TXDOT Worker Dead After Vehicle Avoiding Accident Strikes Him (a 32-year-old man died in an auto-pedestrian accident – a vehicle traveling northbound swerved from the right land to the left lane – in an effort to avoid a crash with this vehicle, several other vehicles swerved to the median)
Road worker dies after accident (the road worker hit by a truck has died – no other details)
I-4 Construction Worker Hit by Car (a construction worker was injured when a car crashed through cones and hit her – the ramp is closed, and there were orange construction cones blocking the ramp, but a vehicle crashed through the cones and hit her – she suffered a compound fracture)