Fallen Towers

A Georgia tow operator was struck and killed Thursday, Sept. 17, while loading a vehicle on the shoulder of Interstate 20 in McDuffie County, Ga. Eugene Jennings (Jason) Willis III, 31, was hit by a vehicle that crossed the fog line at approximately 2:30 a.m., according to the Georgia State Patrol. The motorist driving the…

Tow operators joined in a memorial procession Friday, Aug. 28, in New Braunfels, Texas, to honor tow operator Tristin Cother. Cother, 22, was killed Aug. 20 when he was struck by an 18-wheeler on the shoulder of Interstate 35 in Kyle, Texas. He was a tow truck operator with his family’s business, The Wrecker Man Towing…

Police in Kyle, Texas, have reported that a tow operator Tristen Cother, 22, was killed on the shoulder of Interstate 35 early Thursday morning (August 20). Cother’s tow truck and a box truck were parked on the side of the interstate when an 18-wheeler driven by Jose Luis Juarez of Laredo, Texas, struck the two…

A tow operator was killed in a crash on I-15 southbound northeast of Las Vegas Valley on Monday, July 10. The operator was driving an Isuzu flatbed tow truck that collided with the rear of a large Army National Guard vehicle traveling slower than the tow truck. The Nevada Highway Patrol, which responded to the…

A tow operator and the driver of a vehicle the operator was assisting died July 30 at approximately 5:17 a.m., when they were struck on the shoulder of Interstate 15 near Baker, Calif. The California Highway Patrol stated that the operator, a  43-year-old male from Barstow, Calif., was assisting the driver of a 2002 Chevrolet…

An Ohio tow operator was struck and killed at approximately 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, as he assisted a disabled vehicle alongside the Ohio Turnpike in Henrietta Township. Officials say the operator, identified as Eric Ackerman, 42, of Sandusky, and the driver of the disabled vehicle were loading two jet skis from a trailer onto…

A tow operator was killed Tuesday, July 21, as he assisted a disabled vehicle on the side of Interstate 78 in Bethel Township, Pa. The operator was identified as Tyler A. Laudenslager, 29, of Halifax, Dauphin County. State police said a vehicle traveling west on I-78 rear-ended a commercial vehicle then veered across the interstate…

Friends, colleagues and family of Oklahoma tow operator Bernardo Martinez are remembering him as a  man with a big heart who would go out of his way to help others. Martinez, 41, of Oklahoma City, was struck by a passing vehicle July 8 on Interstate 44 near Fletcher, Okla., as he loaded a disabled pickup…

The tow operator who was missing after a traffic crash on the Don Holt Bridge in Charleston, S.C., has been identified as William Ellis, 45, of North Charleston. Ellis was assisting a motorist with a disabled vehicle on Wednesday. A Charleston County sheriff’s deputy was also at the scene. At approximately 9:50 a.m., a Ford-F-350 towing…

A 61-year-old tow operator, from Dublin, Calif., was struck and killed on June 23 as he assisted a motorist in a disabled vehicle on I-280 in Redwood City, Calif. The operator, who was identified verbally on a news report on KTVU, was a contractor for the Bay Area Freeway Service Patrol, which works with Caltrans…