Fallen Towers

A tow operator was struck and killed Thursday, January 18 on the Indiana Toll Road at mile marker 114.2 north of Shipshewana in LaGrange County. The Indiana State Police reports that crews were on the scene of an incident at that location at approximately 9:40 a.m. cleaning up a diesel spill and removing a tractor-trailer…

A tow operator was struck and killed Wednesday, December 27, in Jasper County, South Carolina. The South Carolina Highway Patrol said operator Eric Albertson, 39, of Ridgeland, SC, was assisting a motorist on Frontage Road near Ridgeland at approximately 6:23 p.m. The vehicle that struck Albertson left the scene. Albertson was an employee of A1…

A tow operator was struck and killed Wednesday, November 29, on Interstate 255 in Monroe County, Illinois. Police said operator Wade Bivins, 57, of East Carondelet, was assisting a disabled vehicle on the southbound lanes near Columbia at 10:15 a.m. As he loaded the vehicle and was walking along the left side of his truck…

A tow operator was struck and killed Sunday, November 12, on I-80 in Urbandale, Iowa. Operator Joshua Villa, 45, of Adel, Iowa, was assisting a motorist with a disabled vehicle at approximately 10 p.m. As he exited his truck on the right shoulder, he was hit by a semi-truck driven by Dmytro Prysich of Hamtramck,…

A Pennsylvania tow operator was struck and killed Wednesday, August 16, on the Parkway West in Pittsburgh. The crash occurred just before midnight, reports said. Pennsylvania State Police said operator Husam Shuibat, 53, who worked Advantage Towing in Carnegie, had just secured a vehicle on his flatbed with his lights activated, and was getting back…

Information was released Tuesday, July 11, regarding a crash in which a tow operator was struck and killed Saturday, July 8, in North Lauderdale, FL. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, at approximately p.m., the operator was outside of the driver’s side of his flatbed tow truck in the 6100 block of West McNab Road.…

A tow operator was struck and killed Wednesday May 31, on the Golden State Freeway near Griffith Park in Los Angeles. The operator, Presiliano Chavez, 41, of Sun Valley was hit at approximately 11:12 p.m. while responding to a call to assist a motorist whose vehicle had become disabled. As he was attempting to load…

A tow operator has died after becoming trapped under a charter bus Tuesday, May 9, while attempting to tow the vehicle in Raleigh, NC. At approximately 4:36 p.m., Raleigh Police Department responded to the scene at 1312 Kirkland Drive and discovered that Jon Andrews, an employee of East Coast Towing of Raleigh, died after the…

An Iowa tow operator was struck and killed early Monday morning on the side of Interstate 80 westbound in Scott County, Iowa. The operator, Mark Muske, 52, was an employee of Tegeler Wrecker and Crane. He was struck by a Jeep Patriot while assisting a stalled bus, reports said. The Iowa State Patrol is investigating…

An Ohio tow operator was struck and killed Friday, April 7, alongside Interstate 275 in Ohio. Operator Keith Skaggs, 38, was loading a disabled vehicle at approximately 9:30 p.m. in Anderson Township when a driver in a blue Dodge pickup, reportedly without lights on and traveling at a high rate of speed, lost control of…