More tickets for drivers who don’t move for tow truck drivers
Following the death of a tow truck driver, police are hoping to raise the awareness for drivers who don’t move over for two truck drivers. While drivers are already legally required to move over a lane for tow trucks, some don’t know that law and police aim to use some of the $320,000 from a federal traffic-safety grant to help increase safety for two truck drivers. “They’re happening because people aren’t moving over,” Vaughn J. Gobel, president of Towing & Recovery Association of Ohio said, the Dispatch reported. “Drivers are getting hit all over the country.”
Previously October 2, 2014
A procession of tow trucks for killed driver
Beginning at Rutherford Corbin Funeral Home, 150 tow trucks will drive in honor of Jack Carpenter who was killed last week when a car hit him while he was collecting a car. Police said the driver who hit him had lost control of his car and hit four cars and Carpenter, and failed to move over one lane for a tow truck that had turned on its lights.
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Previously September 23, 2014
Tow-truck driver hit, killed while on duty
A tow-truck driver out on the road, hooking up a car to his truck was killed Monday night. Jack Carpenter was a wrecker driver, and like most saw a lot of time out in the open while collecting cars, but while getting a woman’s car on the South Side, Carpenter was actually struck and died on the scene. 31-year-old Brian N. Spencer was the driver who hit Carpenter and was found with 16 oxycodone in his pocket and was arrested for possession of drugs and once the toxicology test comes back could be charged with more, according to police.
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