A 71-year-old man died after he struck and killed by a tractor-trailer that was backing up in southeast
The man was standing behind the cab of a commercial tractor-trailer truck in an industrial area in the 4000 block of
He was driven by ambulance to the
It appears that the man was doing something with the trailer’s hitch when the driver backed up and struck him,
It’s not known if the two men worked at the same business but it appeared that they were working together and knew each other, Richard said.
The man has not been named at this time as officials are in the process of notifying his family, the release stated.
This is the 11th traffic fatality in
Ten days earlier, 7-year-old
Flores’ death did not take place on a city street so it was not officially counted as a traffic fatality but that doesn’t change how the case was investigated, Richard said.