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Cement truck driver dies, two Metro officers injured in accident

Updated Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 | 4 p.m.

A cement truck driver was killed early Wednesday afternoon after his truck crossed the median on Summerlin Parkway, collided with an unmarked Metro Police pickup heading the opposite way, then overturned and dropped 20 feet into a wash, authorities said. The accident occurred about 1:20 p.m. and sent the two Metro officers in the pickup to University Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening, according to Trooper Loy Hixson of the Nevada Highway Patrol. The 44-year-old cement truck driver died at the scene, Hixson said. Crews from Las Vegas Fire & Rescue extinguished a fire at the scene and ...

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  1. Condolences to the family of the Truck driver and well wishes for the Metro officers.

    Given the initial description of the accident (according to the Sun's article), I have to wonder if the trick driver had a medical event ....or was texting on his phone.

  2. This sound very suspicious of police abuse.

    Cement trucks are too heavy and too slow to be doing anything unusual. It would make more sense that the cops were going the wrong way and or hot rodding to go get donuts or some other irresponsible behavior.

    A cop car is far more maneuverable and the cops should have avoided hitting the cement truck. After all, how do you not see a cement truck. ?

    I doubt the truth will ever come out on this one since the truck driver is dead.

  3. Ah, another cop hater with the second post. No facts, but an assumption cops caused this by recklessly going on a donut run?

    Beyond reprehensible assumption.

  4. police inquest!

  5. medical event or over correction, wonder if truck had qualcom

  6. The picture looks like a concrete truck rather than a cement truck. Is this a cover-up or bad reporting?
    Condolences to the truck driver's family and friends.

  7. Bob635, please tell me that you're just bored and not the moron that believes what you just wrote. Did you read the article or look at the pictures. I drove by the scene yesterday, eastbound, and the truck was clearly facing westbound. Did metro hire a crane and turn the truck around before the picture was taken just to protect 2 officers on a "donut" run. Did metro then create the deep tracks that showed a traveling path from the westbound lanes crossing the medium into the eastbound lanes and matching up perfectly with the final resting spot of the truck?. Was metro the dark shadowy organization responsible for the JFK assassination ?

  8. Bob is just being facetious or a complete moron!

  9. "The picture looks like a concrete truck rather than a cement truck. Is this a cover-up or bad reporting?"

    You're joking? or just a weirdo?

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